Hawai'i children are featured in a new 9/11 book, United We Stand: Real Kid Heroes, by Michelle Medlock Adams (Waltsan Publishing, $19.95) with stories about how they stepped forward to make a difference.

Chapter 8 features the children of Annie Godsill's kindergarten class at Kekaha Elementary on Kaua'i, who drew pictures of what "brave" meant to them and collected 41,325 pennies for New York firefighters.

And Chapter 15 is about Pearl City's Rochan Pinho, an 11-year-old with brain cancer who made patriotic buttons and raised more than $23,000 for the firefighters. His buttons were so popular that he was contacted by then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki and asked to appear on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show."

Readers can order the book through Waltsan Publishing at waltsan.com, barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com. A portion of royalties will go to the New York World Trade Center Relief Fund.