Kirby Wright: 72 books

Rumor had it that Hoagie had already nailed three cheerleaders and was working on the girls in the Pep Club. Most of the girls and even some of the women teachers swooned whenever he walked by. I considered Hoagie a poacher. His age and status gave him an unfair advantage. I figured the main reason...

  My father kept Granny’s diamond ring on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet in his bathroom next to a blue jar of anti-itching cream. I saw it through the glass shelf whenever I slid the cabinet open for toothpaste. The ring haunted me. It promised no shallow glitter...

Julia Daniels, a Moloka'i pioneer woman of mixed blood, invites her grandsons Jeff and Ben to spend summers with her at her ranch on the east end. She shares the ranch with Chipper, an alcoholic war hero with a life estate bordering the swamp. The brothers roam a paradise of fishponds, waterfalls,...

Jeff and Ben Gill are out to please their grandmother by catching the prize in the Greased Pig Contest at the East End Rodeo. Later, Jeff learns an important lesson about life and death at his grandmother's ranch.

My father had decided on the Young Hotel because of Gramma’s weakness for sweets. The hotel boasted the best bakery on Oahu. He also figured she had a nostalgic interest in that hotel because she’d jitterbugged with Alan Ladd in its ballroom. Despite the bakery and the memories, Gramma was leery...

Two brothers learn a lesson of life and death on their grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.  

I knew Wayne could hurt me if I didn’t keep my gloves up and elbows in. But he was tiring too. I glanced past the top hose and saw Chip Morningstar and Bernie Fredman. Wayne had made it his annual tradition to write “To a Real Panty Waist” in Chip’s yearbook. He’d told Bernie his nose was...

The Junior Class at Punahou School must think of a way to revive interest in the Haunted House, an attraction that was forced to close down in earlier years because of a lack of interest from carnival goers. What to do? How about a house that features an inner sanctum and haunts chock full of vampires!

The first day of eighth grade was the worst day of my life. Debbie Mills, the girl of my dreams, was in the courtyard outside Bishop Hall holding hands with the school bully, Wayne Braswell. Ben told me Wayne had treated Debbie to a summer of matinees, rides on his father’s catamaran, and cheeseburger...

A son's visit to M's Ranch House in Aina Haina with his father triggers happy memories in a relationship that has grown abusive.  They are there to celebrate Joe Frazier's victory over Ali in March, 1971.  

A father accepts his son's challenge to tie him up so he can test his escape skills.  The son gets free and teases his father.  The father ties him up a second time and things turn violent.

A grandmother takes her two grandsons to the Grand Opening Luau at the Molokai Shores condo complex. The grandmother crosses paths with her ex and the grandsons try to get them back together. The younger boy meets his ex-girlfriend from Punahou at the luau and he attempts to rekindle an old flame.

These dreamscapes explore the places of in-betweens, the gray zone between life and death, living and dying. Would father make love again to his wife's best friend, even though she's become a zombie? Why is Gramma chasing the narrator out of the rest home? Has father learned a lesson in empathy when...

A son sees his mother with another man at the Woolworth's lunch counter.