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Pratt Twins #13
The Coconut Connection
In Hawaii for their Christmas vacation, twin sisters Susan and Christine Pratt get more than they bargained for when someone steals the photograph Christine has taken of powerful Charles Collier's secret island
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First published July 30, 1991
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June 3, 2025
The Coconut Connection
Mr. and Mrs Pratt surprise the twins with a coconut and pineapple cake. Which leads to the surprise that they’ll be spending Christmas in Hawaii.
They arrive there and Susan and Chris do some exploring. Susan spies a sundress she likes and Chris buys the same dress. They then hit up the beach. While Chris takes to the water, Susan starts to sketch. She’s then joined by Dennis Martin who admires her art and invites her out on one of his boats. He mentions a rich family the Colliers that she’s not familiar with.
Later at a luau, Chris meets Steven Collier and he introduces her to his uncle Charles (who’s hosting the event and owns a coconut plantation that’s supplying a lot of the food for the event). Later she notices two men walk in and escort Steven’s uncle elsewhere. When mentioned to Steven, he just says it must be the IRS doing something with the family business and then invites Chris to see his family’s coconut plantation the next day.
The next day, Chris is awakened to a limo that takes her to a private airport. She’s then given a tour of the Collier’s private island (Hililhana) by Steven of his home, the coconut groves, the factory, and a sacred part of the island (where it’s said that no one goes for fear that if touched it will cause a volcanic eruption). Chris doesn’t think much of this legend but Steven and his uncle both take it very seriously. Chris takes pictures of everything she sees but when she gets back mysteriously all three rolls of film have disappeared.
Chris goes to the library the next day to look up the legend of Hililhana Island and finds several books, but in each where the section is supposed to be there are pages ripped out.
Susan visits Dennis at the daycare center where he works and a little boy named Jimmy overhears her mention Hililhana and runs off frightened and saying he’d never live there again.
Chris suspects something is suspicious about Charles Collier and she persuades her sister to again get involved with something that has absolutely nothing to do with either of them. Chris makes plans to boat over to visit Steven and snoop around. While out sight-seeing the twins stop at a government building to use the phone to call their parents to inform them, they’ll be late, but Chris sees the two men again from the luau. She follows them and finds out they work for the Dept of Immigration. While Susan is trying to distract Steven from kissing her she comes up with the idea to have a Christmas party.
Chris meanwhile crosses the sacred ground and finds an area with a skull and daggers. She then sees smoke coming from the volcano, gets scared, and leaves. Before she leaves, she sees a little girl running toward the volcano. Chris and Susan minutes later see the same little girl with a little boy and come up with that it’s all a façade. Someone doesn’t want them on the island and Chris is gonna find out who on the night of the Christmas party. Susan however, has developed feelings for Steven which puts her ill at ease about her promise to kiss him.
Chris finds out that in the restricted area is an impoverished, unlivable, town and factory where Charles is keeping illegal aliens that he lied to and promised a better future, but he really keeps them in shitty conditions and horrible pay. So Chris tells Dennis to go back to the mainland and call the FBI and she ends up getting caught by Charles.
She makes up an excuse she was back there to lure Steven out to fool around. He escorts her back in and tells Steven he found her. But Steven is confused because he was just with her. Then Susan comes out and Charles says that one of them is a spy, but before he can get them alone (with Steven insisting he wants to know what the deal is and Charles telling him to butt out) the police show up and arrest Charles.
It turns out the Dept of Immigration has been on Charles's trail for a while and were waiting in a boat outside the island and Dennis just happened to be going back to get them.
Susan and Chris confess to each other they like the other’s guys. Later they meet up with them and Steven says he’s taking over the business and the workers will get to stay and he’ll make sure they have better conditions. He also gives Chris her film back. Susan and Chris decide to give their mother and father the chance to sponsor a poor child (inspired by Jimmy).
My Thoughts:
I guessed right. It *was* a slave plantation. Which is just SAD! It reminds me of how today big corporations have greedy billionaires in charge that underpay their workers and have them working in unsuitable living conditions.
I’m just REALLY glad that they didn’t go a step further and say that the little boy and the little girl running on the island were minorities. That would have made this whole thing even worse.
So I guess at the end of the day Chris and Susan did a good thing. As always somehow, they always seem to win in these schemes. But I just kept thinking how these girls just are always poking their noses into something that doesn’t really involve them.
You JUST meet this guy Steven. Of course, it’s gonna look odd if you see two men come up to him at a luau, You might speculate to yourself why. You might even talk to someone about it. But deciding your gonna find out *why*. WHO DOES THAT?
Most people I know would be like “Not my business” and just leave it at that. Then can I just say that “anyone else” no matter how good the intention if they were caught snooping around someone elses private property probably would have been either arrested OR shot without even a thought about it. Charles’s Collier would have just made it go away like he made the island’s history go away. So what makes these two 17-year-old girl’s sooo special that again certain laws just don’t seem to apply to them?
Then not only do they take it on themselves to get involved they drag someone *else* into it. If I were Dennis I would have said “Oh hell nah. I’ll take you over there, but after that, I don’t want no parts of that.” Again they JUST meet Dennis. Would you ask someone you just meet that you thought you were kinda into to help you commit a crime
Again here’s a guy that doesn’t care that the Pratt twins have catfished him. Try that today with a man and see if it gets you a kiss! Not that I’m so sure there’s PLENTY of that going on some of these dating apps. But it just doesn’t seem real to me that no matter what book and who the twin's prank it’s just brushed under the rugs because they’re so grateful or their sense of humor is so good or they’re so taken with the Pratt girls that it’s just all good in the end.
I think I liked the earlier books better though when the pranks they did were just harmless high school stuff.
Oh another thing that seemed unreal to me was that the Pratt parents don’t seem to have not one problem with their daughters just throwing themselves into danger. They don’t seem to even have a problem with one of their daughters flying off to a private island with some guy they’ve NEVER BEEN INTRODUCED to or the other one going off with one they JUST meet a few seconds ago at a luau. SMH!
Rating: 5 The Dept of Immigration have been trying to bust up an illegal alien operation for YEARS and the Pratt twins solve it in a week. Mmm-hmm!
Mr. and Mrs Pratt surprise the twins with a coconut and pineapple cake. Which leads to the surprise that they’ll be spending Christmas in Hawaii.
They arrive there and Susan and Chris do some exploring. Susan spies a sundress she likes and Chris buys the same dress. They then hit up the beach. While Chris takes to the water, Susan starts to sketch. She’s then joined by Dennis Martin who admires her art and invites her out on one of his boats. He mentions a rich family the Colliers that she’s not familiar with.
Later at a luau, Chris meets Steven Collier and he introduces her to his uncle Charles (who’s hosting the event and owns a coconut plantation that’s supplying a lot of the food for the event). Later she notices two men walk in and escort Steven’s uncle elsewhere. When mentioned to Steven, he just says it must be the IRS doing something with the family business and then invites Chris to see his family’s coconut plantation the next day.
The next day, Chris is awakened to a limo that takes her to a private airport. She’s then given a tour of the Collier’s private island (Hililhana) by Steven of his home, the coconut groves, the factory, and a sacred part of the island (where it’s said that no one goes for fear that if touched it will cause a volcanic eruption). Chris doesn’t think much of this legend but Steven and his uncle both take it very seriously. Chris takes pictures of everything she sees but when she gets back mysteriously all three rolls of film have disappeared.
Chris goes to the library the next day to look up the legend of Hililhana Island and finds several books, but in each where the section is supposed to be there are pages ripped out.
Susan visits Dennis at the daycare center where he works and a little boy named Jimmy overhears her mention Hililhana and runs off frightened and saying he’d never live there again.
Chris suspects something is suspicious about Charles Collier and she persuades her sister to again get involved with something that has absolutely nothing to do with either of them. Chris makes plans to boat over to visit Steven and snoop around. While out sight-seeing the twins stop at a government building to use the phone to call their parents to inform them, they’ll be late, but Chris sees the two men again from the luau. She follows them and finds out they work for the Dept of Immigration. While Susan is trying to distract Steven from kissing her she comes up with the idea to have a Christmas party.
Chris meanwhile crosses the sacred ground and finds an area with a skull and daggers. She then sees smoke coming from the volcano, gets scared, and leaves. Before she leaves, she sees a little girl running toward the volcano. Chris and Susan minutes later see the same little girl with a little boy and come up with that it’s all a façade. Someone doesn’t want them on the island and Chris is gonna find out who on the night of the Christmas party. Susan however, has developed feelings for Steven which puts her ill at ease about her promise to kiss him.
Chris finds out that in the restricted area is an impoverished, unlivable, town and factory where Charles is keeping illegal aliens that he lied to and promised a better future, but he really keeps them in shitty conditions and horrible pay. So Chris tells Dennis to go back to the mainland and call the FBI and she ends up getting caught by Charles.
She makes up an excuse she was back there to lure Steven out to fool around. He escorts her back in and tells Steven he found her. But Steven is confused because he was just with her. Then Susan comes out and Charles says that one of them is a spy, but before he can get them alone (with Steven insisting he wants to know what the deal is and Charles telling him to butt out) the police show up and arrest Charles.
It turns out the Dept of Immigration has been on Charles's trail for a while and were waiting in a boat outside the island and Dennis just happened to be going back to get them.
Susan and Chris confess to each other they like the other’s guys. Later they meet up with them and Steven says he’s taking over the business and the workers will get to stay and he’ll make sure they have better conditions. He also gives Chris her film back. Susan and Chris decide to give their mother and father the chance to sponsor a poor child (inspired by Jimmy).
My Thoughts:
I guessed right. It *was* a slave plantation. Which is just SAD! It reminds me of how today big corporations have greedy billionaires in charge that underpay their workers and have them working in unsuitable living conditions.
I’m just REALLY glad that they didn’t go a step further and say that the little boy and the little girl running on the island were minorities. That would have made this whole thing even worse.
So I guess at the end of the day Chris and Susan did a good thing. As always somehow, they always seem to win in these schemes. But I just kept thinking how these girls just are always poking their noses into something that doesn’t really involve them.
You JUST meet this guy Steven. Of course, it’s gonna look odd if you see two men come up to him at a luau, You might speculate to yourself why. You might even talk to someone about it. But deciding your gonna find out *why*. WHO DOES THAT?
Most people I know would be like “Not my business” and just leave it at that. Then can I just say that “anyone else” no matter how good the intention if they were caught snooping around someone elses private property probably would have been either arrested OR shot without even a thought about it. Charles’s Collier would have just made it go away like he made the island’s history go away. So what makes these two 17-year-old girl’s sooo special that again certain laws just don’t seem to apply to them?
Then not only do they take it on themselves to get involved they drag someone *else* into it. If I were Dennis I would have said “Oh hell nah. I’ll take you over there, but after that, I don’t want no parts of that.” Again they JUST meet Dennis. Would you ask someone you just meet that you thought you were kinda into to help you commit a crime
Again here’s a guy that doesn’t care that the Pratt twins have catfished him. Try that today with a man and see if it gets you a kiss! Not that I’m so sure there’s PLENTY of that going on some of these dating apps. But it just doesn’t seem real to me that no matter what book and who the twin's prank it’s just brushed under the rugs because they’re so grateful or their sense of humor is so good or they’re so taken with the Pratt girls that it’s just all good in the end.
I think I liked the earlier books better though when the pranks they did were just harmless high school stuff.
Oh another thing that seemed unreal to me was that the Pratt parents don’t seem to have not one problem with their daughters just throwing themselves into danger. They don’t seem to even have a problem with one of their daughters flying off to a private island with some guy they’ve NEVER BEEN INTRODUCED to or the other one going off with one they JUST meet a few seconds ago at a luau. SMH!
Rating: 5 The Dept of Immigration have been trying to bust up an illegal alien operation for YEARS and the Pratt twins solve it in a week. Mmm-hmm!
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