Island Boyz

by Graham Salisbury

Book Overview

In this rich collection, Salisbury's love for Hawaii and its encircling sea shines through every story. Readers will share the rush a boy feels when he leaps off a cliff into a ravine or feasts his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440229553
• ISBN13: 9780440229551
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Island Boyz Purchase Review

My students enjoy the book. I would recommend the product and service to my colleagues.

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

Island Boyz is a collection of short stories that is sure to delight readers young and old alike. More then just stories told with a Hawaii flare, these stories could take place in any young person's life, and I believe some of them have. Some make you chuckle, such as the story 'Mrs. Noonan', some make you wonder(Forty Bucks) and yes there is at least one that left this reader a tad sad (The Doi Store Monkey). Isn't that what a good read is all about? A good mix for the mind and soul. A recommended read, one I feel you will truly enjoy! Shirley Johnson/Reviewer

Reflects the author's love of Hawaii

These short stories reflect the author's love of Hawaii and its culture and atmosphere, providing very different viewpoints and experiences of Hawaiian culture and dreams. From a dead boy and a ravine's hidden beauties to images of the shark as a family protector, this captures perfectly the diverse cultures and concerns of Hawaii's youth.

Masterful short stories of the islands

These stories are fantastic, varied, vivid, subtle, captivating, engrossing -- I'm running out of breath to describe them. Nearly every narrator (and certaingly every speaking boy)in these stories uses the pidgin dialect of the Hawaiian Islands, and as you grow accustomed to reading it, the rhythm of the language begins to feel like music in your ear. Few writers have created as detailed and heartfelt a portrait of a place as Salisbury does here for his beloved Hawaii. The stories are full of fishing, diving, flips flops, green mountains and soaring birds. The stories, and the island boyz, will stay with you long after the book is closed. Waiting for the War is the standout story among a whole collection of fine pieces.