8 oz.; 215 pages; PB some cover wear/corner crease first few pages small smudges rest clean/tight unread 1st Dell Yearling PB Printing. Sonny Mendoza and his cousin grow up in a Hawaiian fishing village. It is a world of beauty, family, love, and of danger and tragedy. Mendoza men must be brave, but Sonny's courage is different. He can't love and trust the water as the other men in his family do.