Honey Girl, by Lisa Freeman
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How to survive California's hottest surf spot: Never go anywhere without a bathing suit. Never cut your hair. Never let them see you panic.The year is 1972. Fifteen-year-old Haunani “Nani” Grace Nuuhiwa is transplanted from her home in Hawaii to Santa Monica, California after her father’s fatal heart attack. Now the proverbial fish-out-of-water, Nani struggles to adjust to her new life with her alcoholic white (haole) mother and the lineup of mean girls who rule State Beach.Following “The Rules”—an unspoken list of dos and don’ts—Nani makes contact with Rox, the leader of the lineup. Through a harrowing series of initiations, Nani not only gets accepted into the lineup, she gains the attention of surf god, Nigel McBride. But maintaining stardom is harder than achieving it. Nani is keeping several secrets that, if revealed, could ruin everything she’s worked so hard to achieve. Secret #1: She’s stolen her dad’s ashes and hidden them from her mom. Secret #2: In order to get in with Rox and her crew, she spied on them and now knows far more than they could ever let her get away with. And most deadly of all, Secret #3: She likes girls, and may very well be in love with Rox.Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Honey Girl, by Lisa Freeman- Amazon Sales Rank: #926769 in Books
- Brand: Freeman, Lisa
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x 1.00" w x 6.20" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—It's the summer of 1972, and Nani has relocated from Hawaii to Santa Monica, and she has more than her fair share of secrets: she's stolen her father's ashes, she loves to surf, and she likes girls. Following the innumerable rules required to fit in with the surfer girls who rule State Beach and keeping her secrets may be more than she can handle on her own. While prose styling is not often a big deal in young adult titles, the writing in this book is stultifying. Overly detailed descriptions of characters read like enumerated lists of facts rather than providing readers insight into the characters. Cultural references alienate readers instead of adding authenticity. Nani's motivations throughout are opaque, and her actions will be bewildering to contemporary teens. It's never clear why Nani wants to join this exclusionary society of surfers and hangers-on, and without that understanding, readers will also be unclear about the characters' interactions. The protagonist's ability to learn the secrets of the surfer girls is unrealistic, particularly for a book that appears to pride itself on its verity. VERDICT Although it provides some insight into a subculture that is no longer extant, this disjointed book has very little of interest to teens.—L. Lee Butler, Hart Middle School, Washington, DC
Review "Where was this book when I was fifteen? Honey Girl is a daring debut. A fierce story of female friendship, earned acceptance, and following the unwritten rules of Southern California beach boy and girl culture in the'70s." —Jamie Lee Curtis"Teens will marvel at this retro journey into vintage beach culture...[and] ache with Nani's pain and the challenge of being 15 and trying to find one's way." —Booklist"This funny yet gripping page-turner, the first novel by the daughter of Hawaii Five-O creator Leonard Freeman, captivates the reader through Nani's honest, confessional, sassy, and utterly engaging voice…Packed with action, attitude, and empathy, Honey Girl should become a YA classic." —Honolulu Star-Advertiser"Lisa Freeman's debut YA novel is one of those delicious books you want to drink down in one sitting…she creates a world rich with detail and description, dropping you into the complicated social structure of elite surfers and the girls who want them…" —B&N Teen Blog"…Very Mean Girls. It conveys the nerves and delicate balance of trying to find your place in a new friendship group, all in a very refreshing and unique way." —LGBT YA reviews"Historical fiction in YA often means gowns, or at the very least flapper dresses, but Freeman's surfer chick novel travels them back to the early '70s, just long enough to detach her characters from texts and e-mails but still have them bombarded with familiar bits of pop culture." —After Ellen.com"In this emotionally-compelling, relatable new novel, Nani fights to earn her place in the group, but also to understand and come to terms with who she is." —Girls Life Magazine"A time machine that zipped me straight back into Southern California in 1972!…Lisa Freeman tells an authentic, funny, poignant, and touching story with a delicate but subversive feminist touch. Paddle out and hang ten with this gnarly read!" —Mimi Pond, author of Over Easy"If Jane Austen had been a fifteen-year-old Southern California beach girl living in the 1970s, this is very possibly the novel she would have written. Lisa Freeman catches it all: the baby oil for tanning, the abalone bracelets, the taste of salt on skin. Honey Girl is a bildungsroman and book of etiquette rolled into one, and its subject is one of my favorite cultures: the brother (and sister) hood of surfing." —Jim Krusoe, author of Parsifal
About the Author Lisa Freeman started her work as an actor and has been in numerous TV productions and films (Mr. Mom and Back to the Future I & II to name a few). She performed at the Comedy Store, which lead to her writing career in radio and spoken word. Freeman has a BA in liberal studies and Creative Writing, an MFA in Fiction, and a certificate in Pedagogy in Writing from Antioch University. Inspired by the Los Angeles region, Honey Girl was written about a time when girls were the color of tan-before-sunscreen, drank Tabs by the six-pack, smoked Lark 100’s, and were not allowed to surf. Honey Girl is her debut novel.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Engaging Look at 1970s Santa Monica By Talvi Honey Girl is an engrossing coming-of-age story set in early 1970s Santa Monica, California. Navigating the beach culture, adhering to strict unwritten rules for girls, and coming to understand her own self are at the heart of 15 year-old half Hawaiian girl Nani's story.Synopsis: Grieving over the recent loss of her larger than life Hawaiian father, Haunani 'Nani' Grace Nuuhiwa is forced to relocate to her white/haole mother's territory: Los Angeles. She will have to integrate into the hierarchy of LA surfers, their 'honey girls', the valley girls, beach bums, sons of elite society, and also deal with her own deteriorating relationship with her mother. Complicating things, Nani likes the girls just as much as the guys; budding relationships with each gender will each have their own pitfalls.Although the location is Southern California, the book is very much about Hawaiian culture before the corporate takeover of the Islands in the late 1970s. The playground of the elite jetsetters and local stars like Don Ho, it was a Hawaii that was both laid back and very intimate - where Nani's father owned a famous bar that attracted celebrities and surfers at the same time. Nani loved her Hawaii and resents the move to the mainland.It is that intimate Hawaiian world that Nani brings to Santa Monica. Following a strict set of 'rules' laid out by her former surfer girl Aunt, Nani will use them as a guide to slowly navigate her way around the elite crowd at the beach. At times she will succeed and at times she will fail but the book captures perfectly the game the girls will play both to survive and to thrive in a boy's world. Jealousy, pettiness, camaraderie, viciousness, redemption - Nani will find these and more in 'the line up' - the elite girlfriends of the 'hottest' surfers on the beach.The pathos in the book is what keeps the story moving and riveting. From the callous disregard of the girls by the surfer boys to the teen girl machinations running as deep as the bay surf, it is beautifully played and faithfully low key. There are no over-the-top antics or drama here - no beach blanket bingo or MTV crassness. No one is evil or good; each character is looking to find their own place in the world. And while this has a YA age character, Honey Girl is very definitely a book written for adults. Never lurid, always grounded, it is an engaging read.From the description, one might assume the book was about Nani's budding love life and a statement about the LGBT. But honestly, whether gravitating toward the boys or the girls, the story is more about the bigger picture of Nani's life rather than a microcosm of the lurid. Nani is dealing not only with the change in her life, accepting the death of her father - but also an alcoholic mother only too eager to abandon Nani's Hawaiian heritage. A heritage that Nani begins to question by the end of the story as she tries to apply Hawaiian surfer rules to the Los Angeles world. Most of the interrelation scenes in the book are Nani feeling her way around unwritten but very static social mores.I would imagine this is fairly close to being autobiographical; there are so many bittersweet details of a Southern California (and Hawaii) now gone. Skateboarders, Tab, roaches and joints, mismatched crochet bikini tops and hippy 'Topanga girls'; dolphin shorts and overgrown bougainvillea, iceplant borders along ocean-side roads. Really, the only thing missing was a stronger soundtrack and I felt that lack keenly. The book doesn't embrace the songs of the era.This is a beautiful, grounded, and nostalgic flashback of 1970s Los Angeles surf culture, Hawaiian heritage, and the trials of growing up in an era of easy drugs, tricky subcultures, and great change. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. An unconventional coming of age: beach reading for smart girls By Lucy Barr Lisa Freeman's book feels like nothing I've ever read - in the best way. In a sharp, intimate writing style, Lisa brings us the story of a fifteen-year old Hawaiian girl navigating through social and cultural issues after the death of her father brings her and her mother to California. Wanting to fit in, Nani struggles to play by the rules she's been taught, all while finding her own way and coming to terms with her emerging bisexuality. Young women (and adults too) will be touched by Nani's spirit and strong will. The author has a talent for capturing the universal growing pains of teendom, but the novel's pure fun.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Honey Girl By tom emma Do gods and goddesses still walk the earth? From the point of view of Nani, a green-eyed fifteen year old hapa haole girl, they do. You can still see them, if you look hard enough, sitting on the shoreline watching the surfer gods waiting in the drop zone. Nani's hyper-active, all-seeing eye brings you into their world,a world that is sometimes "red in tooth and claw" and sometimes as beautifully sensual as Collette's " perfumed jungle." Honey Girl is a book about making it in that world,but more than that, it's about the pain of growing up and about loss, the loss of a beloved father,the loss of an island home, the loss of a mother who never was and the loss of childish illusions. It's also about knowing who you are and what you want, about the attainment of self-knowledge. Read it! You'll love Nani, and you will certainly never forget Rox.
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