First published by Egmont Publishing, 2015
Copyright © 2015 Anne Bustard
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bustard, Anne, 1951– author.
Anywhere but paradise / Anne Bustard.
pages cm
Summary: In 1960 twelve-year-old Peggy Sue and her family move to
the island of Oahu, and she is finding it anything but paradise, because
from the first day at school she is bullied and made fun of by the Hawaiian
children, and she is worried sick about her beloved cat, who is in mandatory
quarantine—and then the tsunami hits Hilo where her parents have gone on
business.
ISBN 978-1-60684-585-1 (hardcover)
1. Middle schools—Hawaii—Juvenile fiction. 2. Bullying—Juvenile
fiction. 3. Ethnic relations—Juvenile fiction. 4. Friendship—Juvenile fiction.
5. Tsunamis—Hawaii—Hilo—Juvenile fiction. 6. Hawaii—History—1959—
Juvenile fiction. [1. Middle schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.
3. Bullying—Fiction. 4. Ethnic relations—Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction.
6. Tsunamis—Fiction. 7. Hawaii—History—1959—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.1.B89An 2015
813.54
[Fic]—dc23
2014034620
Manufactured in the United States of America
