Factual stories abound of those exiled to Moloka’i.  But of those hidden from the authorities?   

  . . .   Nothing  . . . 

Their stories are sewn into the hem of history.

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     Running from Moloka'i, set in Hawaii in 1884,

is a story of this deeply personal pain as told by fifteen-year-old Mele Bennett.    

    Mele's mixed-blood family is the sea divided on the issue of exile.  Her white father is Dr. Reed Bennett, adamant in his support for the law of exile.  Her mother, a full Hawaiian, is secretly walking her own path.

     Mele feels adrift.  Keahi, the boy she loves, faces a dangerous and irreversible choice: to trust or not to trust.  If he chooses wrong, his life is pau--he will never see Mele again. 

                     Read Chapter 1 here.