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Most people travel to Hawaii to escape from the craziness of their lives for a while, but from the moment ninja-in-training Yumei Katana arrived at the airport, she knew this was no vacation. Klutzy assassins, philanthropist bullies and even the landscape itself seem to be out to get her. Now she has to go to a school full of people who are trying to date her, kill her - or both, while still attempting to pass her next test! Plus, the son of Thor's getting sweet on her, Loki's daughter's falling for her enemy and two misguided valkyries are only stirring up more trouble. What's your typical ninja girl to do? ... Read more

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Most people travel to Hawaii to escape from the craziness of their lives, but from the moment ninja-in-training Yumei Katana arrived at the airport, she knew this was no vacation. Klutzy assassins, philanthropist bullies, and even the landscape itself seem out to get her. Now she has to go to a school full of people who are trying to date her, kill her - or both - while still attempting to pass her next test! What's your typical ninja girl to do? ... Read more

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Teenage ninja girl Yumei has gotten used to surviving havoc in Hawaii. On a daily basis she is assaulted by a blind ninja samurai, an overly talkative bully and an obnoxious, buxom wrestler, and she has boyfriend who might just be the son of a Norse god. But her usual problems only multiply when a tiki statue sends her on a quest to retrieve a sword that just happens to leave its wielder possessed by a water demon! Throw in some arranged marriages, an evil vice-principal who seduces all the female students, a grim reaper traveling around with a yo-yo-slinging ninja girlfriend and a secret government conspiracy full of evil scientists (naturally), and Yumei is clearly going to have her hands full! ... Read more

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Lili?uokalani (2 September 1838 ? 11 November 1917), born Lydia Kamaka?eha Kaola Mali?i Lili?uokalani, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawai?i. She was also known as Lydia Kamaka?eha P?k?, with the chosen royal name of Lili?uokalani, and she was later named Kaolupoloni K. Dominis. ... Read more

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The Scary Story
The reason I chose this book is because I used to lived in Hawaii and a lot of people would talk about the curse of Pele. The thing that would scare me was when I heard the story I had a couple nightmares. ... Read more

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An intriguing mystery novel about two modern day lovers, Keono Kane, a computer specialist and his girlfriend Tamara Noguichi.While the two are investigating Tamara's father's crimes the ghost of Queen Lili'uokalani pulls them back into time to witness the treatment of children who would become Hawaii's monarchs in a residental school. Interesting treatment of Barack Obama's growing up place and consideration of identity confusion caused by multi-racial nature of Hawaii's residents.

The Honolulu News says:"The overall book makes for interesting reading especially for those who enjoy a good mystery book within a Hawaiian historical setting." ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Punahou School, once known as Oahu College, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school located in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu in the U.S. State of Hawaii. With about 3,750 students attending the school, in kindergarten through the twelfth grade, it is the largest independent school in the United States. In 2006, Punahou School was ranked as the "greenest" school in America. The student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations. In 2008 and 2009, its sports program was ranked by Sports Illustrated as the best in the country out of 38,000 high schools. ... Read more

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In Lighting Fires, Tsujimoto reveals his own unique power as a teacher through descriptions of his many classroom interactions with his students. ... Read more

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Lighting Fires
Lighting Fires was indeed inspirational.Engaging adolescents in writing is a difficult process, but the author gives plenty of examples and poems to light a fire in everyone involved, teachers and students.If you've never tried poetry, or have had little success with it, the author inspires another look at poetry to bring out the artist in all of us. ... Read more

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Can a Manoa girl find happiness with a Waimanalo cowboy and remain a part of her singing group, Kaleidoscope? ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Hawaii Business, published by Hawaii Business Publishing Co. on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2161 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: New environments for learning.(hawai'i guide to private schools)
Author: A. Kam Napier
Publication: Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
Volume: 50Issue: 4Page: PS6(8)

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Honolulu, Bulletin publishing co., ltd.; Publication date: 1911; Subjects: Education; School funds; Education / General; Education / History; Law / Educational Law ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house back to a Hawaiian island of long ago where they make friends, learn how to surf, and encounter a tsunami. ... Read more

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high tide in hawaii
High Tide in Hawaii

Do you like adventure or mystery books? Well, if you do read High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborn. This book is about two little siblings that have a magic tree house and they have adventures in it... Jack and Annie are in their porch both reading books when magically the MAGIC TREE HOUSE appears "Hey, it is back" Annie said with a smile. Both of them smiled because the adventurous tree house was back and they will have another extreme adventure like all the days.

"Mom" Jack shouted just like always. "We are leaving to the woods, to the Magic Tree House" And just like always their mom will say "Be here soon." The siblings will pick up their necessary things. They live the house and go to the woods, climb the Magic tree house and discuss their adventure.


When the two young siblings reach the tree house they let their luggage on the floor and discuss the adventure for that day ...... They decided to go to the hot island of Hawaii and so they did. The tree house started to spin each time it spun faster and faster until ... it stopped , " Where are we " asked both of them . They were on a huge ship "You are in Hawaii," said a voice. Jack and Annie looked surprised . .... They got to Hawaii and saw many awesome things .They met some Indians from there and actually they met friends, two little siblings just like them but.... They ...... find out... in High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne

Another great story
High Tide in Hawaii (Magic Tree House 28)
I haven't been disappointed with any story in this series. They are educational adventure stories. My 5 year old has learned a lot from each story. The basic story line is about a brother and sister who find a magic tree house and fly to amazing places and times. They may not always agree but they get along. Jack uses the reference books to learn about the place they traveled to and Annie relies on her intuitions. Together they make a great team. Even the concept of "using your instincts" and "check the available information" are important for kids to hear verbalized.

Often they have a mission and they need to solve a riddle or figure something out to accomplish their goal. In this story they are looking for a special kind of "ship". They start out looking for a boat but in the end they learn the ship they are looking for is friendship. Along the way they actually found friendship with two Hawaiian children they had met. They learned about surfing, Hawaiian hula dancing, tidal waves. They try primitive hawaiian foods and observe the family working to make fabric from tree bark and food from plants.

We listen to these stories every time we are in the car. They are interesting enough to keep us grown ups interested even when we hear the story several times. When we get a new set we listen to it and when we finish it we start the series all over again. They are great fun. Jack and Annie are realistic kids that we have gotten to know and like.

AWESOME BOOK!!!!
MY SON AND I LOVE THIS BOOK AND ALL THE MAGIC TREE HOUSE BOOKS ~ A MUST BUY FOR KIDS!!

excellent audio book
6 year old niece listens intently on the way to school.as soon as we get going anywhere she says: "a little Jack and Annie please."Very well read by the author.Even I enjoy the audio books so much I bought 19 of the paperbacks.suggest parents or grandparents try either audio books or books or both varieties.Thank you Mary Pope Osborne.I am going to try the Oddysey series now.

One little problem..
Our family has been plowing through the Magic Tree House books recently, and our kid really likes them... They certainly do capture kids' imagination and encourage them to read; they also are mildly educational, which is a nice added bonus.

This volume, though, has me wondering if at times the series isn't as well-researched as it ought to be... Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there something wrong when you have Jack and Annie traveling back in time to ancient Hawaii and meeting a boy named Boka... when the letter "B" doesn't exist in the Hawaiian language?Seems like Mary Pope Osborne, her ghost writers, or her editors, could have caught a goof like this before the book went to press.Oh, well.A minor point, perhaps, but it does reveal a rather cavalier attitude towards the global cultures that the books supposedly are helping introduce to young readers. (Axton) ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In Hawaii, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaii’s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.

The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build America’s strong and vital fiftieth state. ... Read more

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Hawaii
Excellent! Once I started reading it, this book was difficult to put down.Not only does Michener weave a great story, he describes the people, the history, and the places of Hawaii perfectly.One of the best!

Not Michener's Best
I've read several Michener novels and this is frankly not his best work. As always, he spends plenty of time acquainting the reader with the locale, beginning with the formation of the earth's crust. I enjoy the historical and archaeological background, and thoroughly enjoyed the story of the early people who made that incredible journey of faith and will across the sea to found Hawaii. But with the arrival of the missionaries the story takes a turn, and I kept having to wonder whether or not Michener himself believed that their deliberate, disrespectful destruction of the beautiful, thousands of years old, Polynesian society was a crime against a human population. However, his telling leaves one to wonder, and in fact it seems that the author does not see the irony in his own telling.
To be fair, it is certainly challenging to write hundreds of pages about such a very unappealing character as the missionary Abner Hale (who believes unswervingly that his God is the only one, and that the religious beliefs of the Polynesian people is pure heathen fantasy that must be destroyed). His success is painfully unsettling, and is the crux of much of the story.
The book is long on missionaries, and short on connecting the reader with the culture that was willfully destroyed (in the name of God).
There are better Michener novels with which to spend a thousand pages of reading time.

Very Very Good, but not Great
This is a novel just one step away from greatness.

First, I want to say that I hold Michener up to his own story-telling standard, and that of one other author - James Clavell - whose body of work plays within the same genre of historical fiction.

Michener is a master - without a doubt. His subtle nod to a "humanistic/Classical Liberal" viewpoint is always present despite his slight play at moral neutrality. This means that many of his stories - short and long - carry with them moral lessons that I personally believe are essential to one's living a happy, successful life.

And while I enjoy his worldview, I must say that there is one thing missing from "Hawaii" that I would have greatly appreciated.

That is, the sort of heroic, individualistic men and women that make up some of his other works, and are always present in the Clavell universe. While there are great heroes in "Hawaii", they flash in and out too quickly, and you are left with a sense of watching the beginning or ending of many movies, but never really taking a whole film in. There are a few notable exceptions such as "Wu Chow's Auntie" but I wanted more.

And then there is the sad, sort of fatalism, almost defeatism, that plagues so many of his characters and their lives. They are not really ever self-actualized. Revenge is not often sought, rights are not wronged and justice is not served. There are exceptions but they are rare. I was left unsatisfied...left feeling...when are my heroes going to win! or Lose! Or something. Not just fade away in a sentence after reading and caring about their lives for weeks of mine.

Even so, I am grateful that this book was written as it has educated me to a wonderful land that I knew next to nothing about. So as a (semi-fictional) historical record, it deserves a 4.5/5. As a work of fiction, it is sadly lacking. It is simply Michener's masterful mind and research that keeps things moving along. Well worth the read. But if you have not yet picked up Tai Pan or Shogun, then I think it is better to start there and return to this gentlemen later.

Lastly, this novel should be commended for two things. First - its portrayal of missionaries and the Church. The good and the bad. The Church, whether in Europe or elsewhere, has always been a source for those that believed in asking questions about existence and seeking them out. Many men and women in this novel did just that. And they succeeded and failed depending on the answers they found, and how they dealt with them.

Second - the idea of an American, or Hawaiian, or "pure" Chinese is transformed into what it should be. Not something based on race, color or "who was there first" but on the millions of people who's ideas, culture, tastes, dreams, etc. shape each and every single person on this planet. Michener's Golden People are not the color "Gold" - but they are indeed Gold in that they have integrated the BEST of so many aspects of East and West, culminating in a truly integrated human being. This is the antidote to racism and tribalism, which multiculturalist never quite understood.

I suppose the bottom line is that if you look to novels to inspire, motivate, drive you to seek your dreams out, and make them real, Hawaii will satisfy you but inconsistently so. But if you aspire to know and understand Hawaii as a place and people, and the dreams that made it real, then you have the right book in your hands.

Not my favorite
My favorite Michener novel is "The Novel". This is probably partly because I'm a writer myself. As I contemplated my review for Hawaii, I did read some of the reviews and they fascinated me. It would be interesting to know a profile of readers who love Michener. Please indulge me regarding the comments below prefacing my review of Hawaii.

Michener's books are almost invariably extremely lengthy. And he gets away with what would be literary suicide for many writers. Most all his books include hundreds of pages of exposition: geologic research, cultural backgrounds, historical references, family trees/genealogies, archaeological discoveries, geographical information, etc.I've read stern warnings in many instructional books regarding the temptation to include all your research in a novel just because you spent so many hours compiling it. The books state how boring and tedious this can become for readers to wade through all this exposition in a desperate search for the plot.

It was a little amusing to me how many readers acknowledged Michener's penchant for massive exposition. Then the reviewer typically goes on to say that the book was still great and engrossing, etc. I'm a researcher as well as a writer, so it's saying a lot for me to state that I think Michener does go a little overboard at times with the truckloads of background material. But he's great enough to still keep an interesting plot moving along and sell tons of books.

Regarding Hawaii, I read it and, like others, found sections of it quite fascinating. One section, however, disturbed me quite a bit. It seemed as if the missionaries were caricatured as horrible human beings. They were foolish, sour, stern, mean-spirited, and even cruel at times.I'm not saying Michener is lying. I believe that some early missionaries misunderstood grossly what it meant to evangelize and invite people to consider the salvation offered through Christ's death on the cross for mankind. They thought that native people's cultural mores must be forsaken for them to be "Christianized." They sometimes made cultural mountains out of molehills and forced standards upon native peoples which did not even come from the Bible. Christian missions has changed in huge ways and for many decades it has spread the gospel of Christ without destroying the cultures and customs of various people groups.

Maybe I'm overreacting a little, because most reviewers seemed to realize that Michener was not cynically condemning all Christian missions with ugly, biased intentions. But, in any case, I'm just recording my reactions to the book. Please don't email me with bristling retorts as if I've bad-mouthed Michener. I have read some of his books and agree that he's a great writer. If you have an interest in writing, I especially recommend that you read The Novel. It is excellent.

Impressive
I've never read Michener's work before, but this book left me awed with his knowledge of history and storytelling ability. The book begins with a brief section on the formation of the islands, then plunges into a novella (100 pages) about the arrival of the original Polynesian settlers. After that, it jumps forward again to the 1820s and the arrival of the New England missionaries. After this point, the narrative is pretty much continuous, with new chapters covering both the background and the arrival of new groups (Chinese, Japanese) and continuing the story of those who were already there. At this point it becomes very much a family saga, spanning about 130 years (the book was published in 1959, so the narrative deals only with pre-statehood Hawaii).

Obviously there's a great deal of history here, somewhat fictionalized as it may be, and I've never learned about so many places and cultures in the same book. The depth of Michener's research and the details of his portrayal of the lifestyles and thought processes of people from so many different cultures, in particular, never failed to impress me. But the story is brought down-to-earth through the always-engaging struggles of the protagonists, and the plotting and characterization were certainly enough to keep me reading. The writing style is intelligent; I know some people find Michener too dense for their tastes, but for me this book was just right: much more intelligent than your typical pop lit, but still absolutely readable.

My one reservation about this book is that, while I think Michener was quite progressive for the 50's, there are some wince-worthy moments in his dealing with race relations and his characterization of women and their roles. It doesn't seem to have bothered many people, but there is the occasional bit that hasn't aged especially well. Other reviewers have found the dropping of old protagonists jarring as the story moves on from one generation to the next, but I think that's standard for family sagas, especially when they have the breadth of this one.

I highly recommend this book even to those who have no special interest in Hawaii, and I plan to read more of Michener's work in the future. ... Read more

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The essential guide for parents contemplating private schooling for their young. It familiarizes them with the process of private school entry---with emphasis on planning, preparation and strategy.Its focus is on early education. Practical tips are offered on selecting schools that best match your child, turning out a winning application, answering questionnaires effectively, preparing for the dreaded interview, and funding a private school education. It simplifies an otherwise overwhelming and taxing process. Its overarching goal is to provide parents with practical knowledge so that they can better meet the challenges and realities ofHawaii's competitive private schools. ... Read more

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The first edition of The Living Ocean, published in 1991 by Island Press in association with Friends of the Earth, was widely praised by scientists, policymakers, instructors, and general readers as a useful and accessible introduction to the science and policy of biological diversity in marine environments. Since that time, much new research has been conducted and numerous national and international policy initiatives have been undertaken.

With 1998 designated by the United Nations as the International Year of the Ocean, this new, revised and expanded, edition is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature.

This edition brings the volume up-to-date, and re-establishes it as an essential primer for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of marine biodiversity and how it can be protected. It provides an overview of basic concepts and principles and a review of relevant policy issues and existing instruments. The author.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Dean Parsons (born April 4, 1948) is the current chairman of Citigroup and the former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner. He stepped down as CEO of Time Warner on December 31 2007. Parsons was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the University of Hawaii; at 6'4" tall he played varsity basketball. He earned a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School in 1971, coming top of his class.Parsons, who is a prominent moderate African American Republican, served an internship at the New York State Legislature, at which time he was invited to work as a lawyer for the staff of the then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. When Rockefeller was appointed Vice President of the United States, in 1974, Parsons followed him to Washington D.C., where he worked directly with President Gerald Ford. He also met a deputy attorney general, Harold R. Tyler, and one of his aides, a young Rudolph W. Giuliani, with whom he was to be closely associated - supporting him in his campaign for New York mayor and heading his transitional council. ... Read more