Goodreads<\/a>:<\/p>\nRight before my eyes, my beautiful islands are changing forever. And so am I …<\/i>
\nSixteen-year-old Leilani loves surfing and her home in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. But she’s an outsider – half white, half Hawaiian, and an epileptic.
\nWhile Lei and her father are on a visit to Oahu, a global disaster strikes. Technology and power fail, Hawaii is cut off from the world, and the islands revert to traditional ways of survival. As Lei and her dad embark on a nightmarish journey across islands to reach home and family, she learns that her epilepsy and her deep connection to Hawaii could be keys to ending the crisis before it becomes worse than anyone can imagine.
\nA powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels. The author has a master\u2019s degree in tropical conservation biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo.<\/p>\n
Disability Portrayed:\u00a0<\/strong>epilepsy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Handbook for Dragon Slayers Merrie Haskell From Goodreads: Thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, has never given much thought to dragons, attending instead to her endless duties and wishing herself free of a princess’s responsibilities. When a greedy cousin steals Tilda’s lands, the young princess goes on the run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusiviread.hopedla.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}