Barbie Roberts rejoices when her parents announce she'll go with them to Hawaii for Christmas vacation. They'll be house guests of her father's Honolulu friends, the Haweses, who have a handsome son. But Gerald Hawes isn't quite the boy Barbie had looked forward to meeting. And when she defies his unfriendly mother by taking up the dangerous sport of surf riding with a Hawaiian boy, big trouble begins to brew. How Barbie copes with her problems provides lively adventure in a story that takes you on a colorful trip to our 50th state.