Finding home : a Hawaiian petrel's journey / Caren Loebel-Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loebel-Fried, Caren, author, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaiian petrel--Conservation--Juvenile fiction.

Hawaiian petrel.

Endemic birds--Conservation--Hawaii--Juvenile fiction.

Endemic birds.

Hawaiian petrels--Fict.

Shearwater family (Birds)--Fict.

Wildlife conservation--Fict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Eleven-year-old Makani Kealoha Morton adores ‘ua‘u, Hawaiian petrels. She grew up marveling at the seabird’s magical evening sky-dance and murmurs from their underground burrows. Living over the ocean, gliding thousands of miles on the wind to wherever food was abundant, they returned yearly to their burrows in the Hawaiian Islands. Over thousands of years, their guano helped to make Hawaiʻi fertile and habitable for humans. Yet humans brought predators and environmental changes that caused ʻuaʻu numbers to plummet to near extinction.Makani’s biologist mom and her team devise a plan to save the seabirds. Ten ʻuaʻu chicks are raised within a protected place. The chicks leave for the sea one by one—but Makani’s favorite is very late to fledge. Makani worries: Will this young petrel survive at sea? Will she return to the refuge to raise her own young? Will the plan to save the ‘ua‘u work? By the story’s end, Makani finds her own way to make a difference for the seabirds she loves so dearly.Based on the true story of ʻuaʻu and the people working to save them, Finding Home, a Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey is filled with Caren Loebel-Fried’s colorful block prints, dynamic drawings, and maps. Following the story, a back section provides scientific facts on the habitat and lifestyle of ‘ua‘u and their connection to Hawaiian culture and history. The book’s middle-grade content includes place-based learning that incorporates natural science, wildlife conservation biology, literature, and art. Appealing to all ages, this hopeful, empowering story brings awareness to the threats humans have brought upon seabirds, and inspires us to find ways we can help them survive and thrive."-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Ua‘u, the Hawaiian petrel

When Makani was young

Nihokū

Nesting season

HAPE#4

Call of the sea

A graph tells part of the story

Help for a chick on Lāna‘i

Foraging for a little one

The dark sky

Big Island, long mountain

A broken wing

Haleakalā, house of the sun

First flight

Dreams

Epilogue: finding home: the translocation project at Nihokū

What are Hawaiian petrels, ‘Ua‘u?

Facts about the ‘Ua‘u

Nesting time! breeding activities and schedules

Seabirds in Hawaiian culture

What are the main threats to seabirds?

How do biologists help Hawaiian petrels?

How can we help seabirds?

Endemic and indigenous seabirds of Hawai‘i (common, scientific, and Hawaiian names)

The people and groups who inspired this book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 27, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Loebel-Fried, Caren. Finding home.

ISBN:

9780824898137

0824898133

OCLC:

1455242432

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license