Call It Courage (Newbery Medal Winner)

ALA Newbery Medal • African Studies Association Child Book Award Honor

Mafatu has been afraid of the sea for as long as he can remember. Though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru-an island whose seafaring people worship courage-Mafatu feels like an outsider. All his life he has been teased, taunted, and even blamed for storms on the sea.

Then at age fifteen, no longer willing to put up with the ridicule and jibes, Mafatu decides to take his fate into his own hands. With his dog, Uri, as...