Lehua Parker - One Boy, No Water
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When youre allergic to water, growing up in Hawaii isnt always paradise.
Everybody loves Jay.
I love my brother, too. Sometimes I wish I could be hima surfing star instead of the weird kid allergic to water, the Blalahs favorite punching bag.
But thats not the worst of it.
In the middle of the night, I dream. Theres a mysterious girl who lives in a magical place and acts like she knows me better than I know myself. We hide from the Man with Too Many Teeth. Some nights I wake up with my heart pounding and the urge to eat raw meat.
Its just a dream, right?
But then I saw him, the Man with Too Many Teeth, walking along the reef at Piko Point.
Not even Jay can protect me now.
One Boy, No Wateris Book 1 in the Niuhi Shark Saga trilogy. Told from an indigenous perspective and set in a contemporary Hawaiian world where all the Hawaiian myths and legends are real, the series explores belonging, adoption, being different, bullying, defining family, and learning to turn weaknesses into strengths.
Through the series, Zader discovers hes not really a boy allergic to water; hes something much more special, dangerous, and powerful. His adoptive brother Jay discovers what happens when the golden surfing star falls from his pedestal and has to choose to make the long climb back from serious injury. Its the ties that bind and support the brothers that allow them to create their own destinies.
As typical local islanders, characters use common Hawaiian and Pidgin words and phrases. The meaning is usually clear from the context, but there is also a Hawaiian Pidgin Glossary for additional support. Each chapter begins with a related island word or phrase and its definitions. A Discussion Guide for book club or classroom use is included. Free additional classroom support materials are available on www.NiuhiSharkSaga.com.
One Boy, No WaterBook 1 in the Niuhi Shark Saga, was a 2017 Nene Award Nominee. The Nene Award is Hawaiis Childrens Choice Book Award recognizing outstanding literary works.
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One Boy, No Water is a colorful island tale and a modern take on various aspects of Hawaiian legendLehua Parker has written a lovely book for an age group often ignored. Hawaii Reads
Original, magic, true, funny, and hard to put down. Sue Cowling, award-winning author of You Will Call Me Drog and My Dog has Flies: Poetry for Hawaiis Kids
What made this story special for me was the window it provided into the society of island children as they struggle for self-identity in the often chop-suey mix of multi-ethnicity and pecking order politics. Kirby Wright, author of Punahou Blues & Molokai Nui Ahina
Parker does an amazing job of weaving the mystery of who and what Zader is throughout the story. Even more outstanding is her ability to infuse other mythologies into the action, which only serve to heighten the secrecy surrounding Zader. The truth will boggle the mind.Ann Marie Meyers, author of Up in the Air
Lehua Parker hits one out of the park with One Boy, No WaterShe absorbs the reader in the story to the extent they forget it is a childrens book. Her debut novel dangles the bait, sets the hook, reels us in. Penny Freeman, editor-in-chief, Xychler Publishing
ONE BOY, NO WATER
By
Lehua Parker
One Boy, No Water is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Fifth Edition
Copyright 2019
by Lehua Parker, LLC
First Edition
Copyright 2012
by Lehua Parker, LLC
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-949429-00-8
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-949429-01-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-949429-02-2
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-949429-09-1
Published in the United States by Makena Press.
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior return permission of the publisher.
For information on subsidiary rights, please contact the author at:
For my parents,
Katherine Frampton Covalt
& Stephen Harry Covalt
One gave a teenager a typewriter for Christmas with the
expectation that one day shed read a novel;
the other now calls me Da Shark Lady.
The Lauele Universe is full of stories that explore the intersections of Hawaiis past, present, and future. Not all of the stories are about Zader or the Niuhi, but many Lauele Universe stories feature characters and events described in the Niuhi Shark Saga.
Zader Stories
Niuhi Shark Saga Trilogy
Book 1: One Boy, No Water
Book 2: One Shark, No Swim
Book 3: One Truth, No Lie
Prequel
Birth/Hanau (Zaders Birth)
Lauele Universe Stories
Nanis Kiss
Puas Kiss
Rells Kiss (Rell Goes Hawaiian)
Tourists
Under the Bed
Aloha!
The Niuhi Shark Saga takes place in an imaginary location on Oahu, Hawaii, called Lauele. Like most islanders, the characters use common Hawaiian and Pidgin English words and phrases when speaking from the heart. Most of the time, its easy to understand plenny small kine fish means plenty of small kinds of fish.
However, some words like hanai (adopted) or ohana (family) are harder to figure out. Whenever youre unsure, head to the glossary. Theres also an online Hawaiian Pidgin English dictionary, free readers guide, and more activities on http://www.niuhisharksaga.com/ .
I hope Zaders adventures in One Boy, No Water; One Shark, No Swim; and One Truth, No Lie give you a little taste of island living. Drop me a line and tell me what you thought. I love to hear from readers.
A hui hou,
AuntyLehua@LehuaParker.com
Like beef?
An invitation to a fight, not dinner.
S itting under the monkeypod tree by the soccer field, I was drawing random lines in the red dirt with an old popsicle stick. Near the swings, the Blalahs were huddled in an evil cabal at a picnic table. Alika Kanahele was using his broken utility knife to carve something witty like his initials into the tabletop. All summer long hed hid the blade from Mr. Tony, our twenty-something camp leader. Whenever Mr. Tony and my brother Jay were busy, Alika liked to wave his knife at me and pretend to slit his throat.
Well, my throat, technically.
Four more hours. If Im quiet, theyll forget about me, I thought.
It was the last day of my last year of Camp Lauele Summer Fun. Not that I was counting or anything. The new school year and eighth grade at Lauele Intermediate was starting soon. One more year of dealing with the Blalahs, and Id be free. With any luck, the Blalahs and I would be in different high schools: me at private Ridgemont Academy and the Blalahs at public Lauele High.
The Blalahs was my name for a couple of mouth-breathers: Chad Watanabe and Alika Kanahele. Like hyenas, the Blalahs hunted as a pack. Chad was slighter and sneakier and smart enough to leave most of the heavy lifting to Alika. Theyd given me small-kine heat for years, but over the summer theyd amped up the hassles.
When he was around, my almost-twin brother Jay had my backnobody messed with Jaybut this summer he was busy surfing and hanging with friends in the ocean off Nalupuki beach. I cant go anywhere near water. I cant even chance em on the sand. When Jay surfs, Im stuck alone at the pavilion above Keikikai beach.
Alone was fine. I liked alone.
But with the Blalahs always around, I wasnt really alone.
I didnt bother looking up when Jay walked over to me, bouncing a red playground ball. Zader, like play? he asked.
Of course. A red rubber smack to the face is my all-time favorite game.
Zader? Jay said.
What? I pushed the popsicle stick deeper into the red earth, pushing until a weak spot started to bend.
Do you wanna play? Frankie and me and you against Jerry, Carson, and Benji. Shambattle. Down by the tetherball pole. Jay flipped the ball between his hands as he jerked his head toward the courts. Its safe. No sprinklers over there.
I pushed harder. The stick snapped.
No more drawing.
I flicked my eyes to the sky, considering. I wasnt wearing my rain jacket and playing shambattle meant my umbrella would be on the ground out of reach, but with clear skies, I should be okay.
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