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1 online resource : 1 map |
Summary |
How to survive Califorina's hottest surf spot: Never go anywhere without a bathing suit. Never cut your hair. Never let them see you panic.The year is 1972. Fifteen-year-old Haunani ℗₃Nani" Grace Nuuhiwa is transplanted from her home in Hawaii to Santa Monica, California after her father's fatal heart attack. Now the proverbial fish-out-of-water, Nani struggles to adjust to her new life with her alcoholic white (haole) mother and the lineup of mean girls who rule State Beach.Following ℗₃The Rules"С́⁰₄an unspoken list of dos and don'tsС́⁰₄Nani makes contact with Rox, the leader of the lineup. Through a harrowing series of initiations, Nani not only gets accepted into the lineup, she gains the attention of surf god, Nigel McBride. But maintaining stardom is harder than achieving it. Nani is keeping several secrets that, if revealed, could ruin everything she's worked so hard to achieve. Secret #1: She's stolen her dad's ashes and hidden them from her mom. Secret #2: In order to get in with Rox and her crew, she spied on them and now knows far more than they could ever let her get away with. And most deadly of all, Secret #3: She likes girls, and may very well be in love with Rox. |
Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 9 2015). |
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Mother and child -- Fiction.
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Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
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Lesbians -- Fiction.
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Santa Monica (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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FICTION / General.
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Lesbians. (OCoLC)fst00996540
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Mother and child. (OCoLC)fst01026878
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Nineteen seventies. (OCoLC)fst01037812
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Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
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California -- Santa Monica.
(OCoLC)fst01204506
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Electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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ISBN |
9781632209085 (electronic bk.) |
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163220908X (electronic bk.) |
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1322954313 (electronic bk.) |
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9781322954318 (electronic bk.) |
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