Ho'onani : hula warrior

Gale, Heather (Children's author) (author.). Song, Mika, (illustrator.).

Summary: "An empowering celebration of identity, acceptance and Hawaiian culture based on the true story of a young girl in Hawai'i who dreams of leading the boys-only hula troupe at her school. Ho'onani feels in-between. She doesn't see herself as wahine (girl) OR kane (boy). She's happy to be in the middle. But not everyone sees it that way. When Ho'onani finds out that there will be a school performance of a traditional kane hula chant, she wants to be part of it. But can a girl really lead the all-male troupe? Ho'onani has to try..."--

Item details

ISBN: 9780735264496
ISBN: 073526449X
Physical Description: print
40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Publisher: [Toronto] : Tundra Books, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"This book was inspired by the film 'A Place in the Middle', produced by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson"--Title page verso.
Awards Note:	Rainbow Book List, 2020. https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1331

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