Aloha Mozart
Waimea Williams

Luminis Books
November 12, 2012 / ISBN 978-1935462637
Fiction/Literary
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Reviewed by Nicole Merritt

Young Maile Manoa is an unlikely heroine of the 60's. Like many impoverished children, Maile has big dreams of living large and going beyond her small world. She dreams of being a success in music. She literally sings for her supper and because of her beautiful voice she is pressured to turn over her money to her large embittered family for their upkeep. Finally, she saves enough and gets the break she has been waiting for and travels to Salzburg, Austria to further her career.

This is the story of a young girl's dream, realized. The setting of beautiful Hawaii and her life there causes the reader to dream along with her and the only thing that would have made this story any better would have been to set it to music on an audio.

I read this book with much enthusiasm and felt that I too was a part of Maile's dream completely when I finished the book. It is genuinely a feel good book and I would recommend it to children and teens as well.