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Blue Skin of the Sea

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By Graham Salisbury
Publisher Yearling
Blue Skin of the Sea
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Sonny Mendoza and his cousin grow up in a Hawaiian fishing village. It is a world of beauty, family, love, and of danger and tragedy. Mendoza men must be brave, but Sonnys courage is different. He cant love and trust the water as the other men in his family do.

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64990 words64,990 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile 810LLexile 810L
Grade 4 to 7Grade 4 to 7
Published 1997Published 1997

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Book ISBN:

0440413591

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