One Boy, No Water- the Niuhi Shark Saga
By Lehua Parker
1 year old Alexander Kaonakai Westin—Zader for short—is allergic to water. One drop on his skin sears like white-hot lava. Too bad a lifetime of carrying an umbrella and staying away from the beach isn’t the answer, especially when his popular almost twin brother Jay looks destined to become the next Hawaiian surfing sensation.
But
avoiding water is just the tip of Zader’s troubles. Eating raw seafood
and rare meat gives him strange dreams about a young girl in a red cape
and nightmares about a man with too many teeth. There’s also the school
bullies who want to make Zader their personal punching bag, the pressure
of getting into Ridgemont Academy, and the mysterious yearly presents
from his birth family that nobody talks about.
It’s
enough to drive Zader crazy, especially when he suspects old Uncle
Kahana and ‘Ilima know a secret that explains his unusual biological
quirks. After all, they were the ones who found him newborn and
abandoned on a reef and brought him to the Westins to adopt. Uncle
Kahana swears Zader is ‘ohana—family—by blood as well as adoption. Too
bad he’s not saying more.
When
Jay quits surfing after a shark scare, Zader decides it’s time to stop
hiding in the shadows and start searching for answers.
Growing up adopted in Hawai‘i just got a little weirder.
About Mormon Author Lehua Parker
Lehua
Parker is originally from Hawaii and a graduate of Brigham Young
University and The Kamehameha Schools. She writes about sunny Hawaii to
escape the frigid Utah winters. Book 2, One Shark No Swim, will be published by Jolly Fish Press in August 2013.
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