A boy is suspended from Punahou School for cutting clazz and must face the wrath of his father. He runs away from home to avoid a beating and is taken in by a family in Waimanalo.

A concise overview of the island to help you plan your vacation to "The Most Hawaiian Island" in Hawaii. Includes Ocean & Land Adventures as well as local contacts for Yoga, Mud Baths, and Hawaiian 'lomi lomi' Massage. Focusing more on the east end on the island--the place of waterfalls, endangered rain forests, and ancient fishponds.

Growing up in Honolulu isn't all it's cracked up to be for Jeffrey Gill. After he gets into prestigious Punahou School, his rite of passage includes losing the babe of his dreams to a creep, surviving Killahaole Day, and getting pushed around by the school bully. In the world of academics, Jeff knows he's hardly Stanford material. Uncle Sharkey teaches Jeff the sweet science and he beefs his arch enemy at Waialae Golf Course. He salvages his senior year by getting into a mainland college a...

The fishpond had been built in the 1500s by the king of Moloka'i. Before its construction, a man named Kilo had told the king that the work could not be done without the help of kahunas. The king said Kilo's punishment for this outburst was to be cooked alive in an imu when the pond was complete. Instead of worrying about his impending doom, Kilo organized the men from Moloka'i into a long line from the ocean up into the mountain. Stones were passed hand-to-hand down to the men building th...

We got in the jeep and Gramma sped through the pineapple fields. She braked suddenly and made us get out. Ben and I picked pineapple after pineapple, until our pink suits were stained with red dirt. The jagged leaves of the plants cut my hands. Before leaving, Gramma flung our Easter baskets into the opposite field. When we got to the ranch she had us shovel manure and wheelbarrow in our suits until the seams split. She told us to stuff all our pockets with dung beetles. Gramma never washe...

Here we discover why the older brother needs to defeat his younger brother at board games and how they understand the workings of their parents' relationship.

See the little girl clutching the Teddy Bear?Take an excursion into her childhood to see how she was affected when her parents divorced.

This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book. Dadio and June Spoon have created their own asylum in the burbs, one in which they 'incarcerate' their children within the confines of the home through guilt control, paternal manipulation, money, and demands bordering on the insane.

Rumor had it that Hoagie had already nailed three cheerleaders and was working on the girls in the Pep Club. Most of the girls and even some of the women teachers swooned whenever he walked by. I considered Hoagie a poacher. His age and status gave him an unfair advantage. I figured the main reason he’d picked Punahou was because of our girls. He’d dated Dawn Yamashita his first week on campus and Dawn cried her eyes out during a movie McQueen made the seniors watch. In the movie, this nai...

Ben and Jeff Gill are doing menial labor at their father's construction site on east end Molokai when Ben reports to the father that the heavy equipment operators are goofing off.One of the operators retaliates by cornering the brothers on an isolated beachfront off Puko'o Harbor.

I slept on the makai side of the lanai. The kaka lines were tethered to the beach house and the moon made them glow as they moved up and down with the tide. These were our umbilical cords, linking us to all the mystery in the ocean. I took my foot out of the covers, slipped it under the mosquito net, and rested it on my line. I felt the ocean's pulse through the cord.

A brother and his kid sister create a parallel universe in their own household to cope with a domineering father, a passive mother, and an indifferent older brother.