Moloka'i

Alan Brennert First published 2004

About this book

Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • leprosy
  • patients
  • women