Kealaula

Kealaula is a young adult/crossover novel that follows its fourteen-year-old protagonist and her little sister on a journey to the Hawaiian islands to learn about the culture of their seriously ill mother. "Part bear and part trout," as her father calls her, Vermont-born Kealaula learns how a person can be two things at once without being less of either, and she learns about the meaning of her name. She has always known that Ke Ala Ula was "the red way," or the path that the sun blazes on the ocean when it sets, but in Waimea she learns that it denotes that same blazing pathway...when the sun is rising over the water. Full of endings and beginnings, Kealaula is a coming-of-age story about growing up, opening up, and letting go.