When Kealaula and her little sister Virgilia are sent to Hawaii Island to learn the secret strand of their mother's story, and by extension their own, she learns much more than the origin of her own name. "Part bear and part trout," as her father calls her, Vermont-born Kealaula forms indestructible bonds with her cousin Nalu and Melody and George Nunes, whose friendship teaches her how a person can be two things at once without being less of either...