Graham Salisbury
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Description
Nine-year-old Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty.
World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats.
But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi's father and grandfather are arrested. It's a terrifying time to be...
World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats.
But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi's father and grandfather are arrested. It's a terrifying time to be...
6) Shark Bait
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Language
English
Description
Mokes is 12, and he knows he's supposed to stay out of town Saturday night when the Navy comes ashore. But tonight's the night when his hero, tough-guy Booley, has vowed to get revenge on a sailor. He's got to be there! One problem: Mokes's Dad is the chief of police. Written with the voice and rhythm of the street that only first-hand knowledge can provide, Shark Bait will attract young adult patrons to your library the way The Outsiders did a generation...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the California Young Reader Medal, Graham Salisbury injects his books with the exotic color of his native Hawaii. Continuing the story begun in Under the Blood-Red Sun, House of the Red Fish returns to Honolulu one year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thirteen-year-old Japanese American Tomi Nakaji must struggle to support his family after the arrest of his father and grandfather....
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Series
Language
English
Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Eddy Okubo, a Japanese American teenager, is more determined than ever to prove his loyalty and worth as an American soldier. Graham Salisbury poignantly pens the historically accurate but fictional account of the special mission given to 26 Japanese American soldiers in the midst of WWII and a young man's struggle between heritage and patriotism.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 6
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Fourth-grader Cal learns a lot about teasing and standing up for others when a weird new student joins his class, while Stella, the tenth-grader who lives with Cal's family to help his mother, practices for her driving test.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When Calvin gets a school assignment to do some original research, he decides to investigate his dog's stinky breath and ends up learning about more than just smells.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 5
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
When a hurricane causes the river near his Hawaiian home to flood, a boy named Calvin Coconut makes a daring rescue.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Description
New fears for fourth-grader Calvin include a school bully named Tito and the return of his estranged father, rock star Little Johnny Coconut.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 9
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Calvin and his friends have the opportunity to earn some money by appearing as extras in a zombie movie being filmed on a nearby beach.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
National Hobby Month - Tweens
National Hobby Month - Tweens
Description
Fourth-grader Calvin flies from Oahu to the big island of Hawaii to go on a deep-sea fishing trip with Ledward, his mother's boyfriend, and learns to appreciate other living creatures-- especially one enormous marlin.