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In the mid­dle of the great Pacif­ic Ocean is a lit­tle island. Her name is Kanaloa Kaho‘olawe.

Dis­cov­er the sto­ry of an island sacred to Native Hawai­ians. Begin­ning with her birth in a vol­canic erup­tion, Kaho‘olawe thrives sur­round­ed by ani­mals on land and in the sea. When Poly­ne­sian voy­agers arrive and begin to raise their fam­i­lies there, the island is hap­py. As the years pass, inva­sive goats dev­as­tate the ecosys­tem, and dur­ing World War II and the decades that fol­low, the US mil­i­tary claims the island for tar­get prac­tice. Kaho‘olawe is hurt. Yet activists nev­er give up on the island, and they final­ly suc­ceed in reclaim­ing her.

Kaho‘olawe endures.

Author Kamalani Hur­ley and illus­tra­tor Hari­nani Orme present the remark­able sto­ry of the small­est Hawai­ian island, encom­pass­ing loss and era­sure, sac­ri­fice and ded­i­ca­tion, and ulti­mate­ly restora­tion, high­light­ing hope, resilience, and alo­ha ‘āina (deep love of the land).

The author has pledged 100 per­cent of her pro­ceeds from sales of this book to the Pro­tect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana.