Mahina Rises

From multiple award-winning novelist, John Blossom comes this volcanic tale of hope and magical realism. ​​​​​​Thirteen-year-old Mahina Moemoea lives on a ranch in up-country Hawaii and wants more out of life than just feeling the earth’s energy in the soil. For her tutu (grandmother), communing with the garden is enough, but that’s because she doesn’t experience Mahina’s amazing flying dreams. When Tutu tells Mahina that the family’s special powers may have killed her mom and dad, she tries hard to obey her grandmother’s strict command to ignore them, until her mom’s spirit shows her an underground path to fulfill the family's destiny of aloha to humanity. “To make the extraordinary ordinary, so that the ordinary has a chance to feel extraordinary again." Follow Mahina in this magical and inspiring story as she discovers a living cavern on her property that holds the most uplifting power yet to stop climate change. Orphaned at an early age, Mahina lives on a ranch in Hawaii with her powerful Tutu (grandmother). Frightened that she will lose Mahina in the same tragic manner as she lost her daughter, Tutu forbids Mahina from learning about the Moemoea Family's mystical powers that grow with each maternal generation. Climate change threatens the existence of their ranch built generations ago over a labyrinth of mysterious lava tubes. Will Mahina obey the Tutu she loves? Or will she obey the urgent dreams of her ancestors that build within her like lava beneath the volcanos that formed the very land where she now lives? Will she stay rooted to the soil, content to ride horses and grow vegetables as her Tutu seemingly does? Or will she rise like a goddess with her friends to forever change herself and the world?