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Jack Stewart hates his new life in Taupo. Everyone at school picks on him; his only friend is a stray cat called Chainsaw; and his parents are always away working. Then he meets Fluoro, who lives in an old explosion crater in Crown Park where steam...
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Description
Jack Stewart hates his new life in Taupo. Everyone at school picks on him; his only friend is a stray cat called Chainsaw; and his parents are always away working.
Then he meets Fluoro, who lives in an old explosion crater in Crown Park where steam and poisonous gases hiss and ooze from the ground. Jack finds that Fluoro has chosen this place not just for the heat coming from deep inside the earth, but because it provides a link to the last eruption of Lake Taupo, two thousand years before.
With Fluoro's help, Jack learns how to take his mind back to when moa and other ancient animals faced the world's greatest eruption. Along with a group of creatures called the Luce Crew, they embark on a rescue mission that threatens not only these animals of the past, but humans in the present.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781927199411
Publisher: Oceanbooks Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2013
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Oceanbooks Ltd
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 276g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Des Hunt lives at Matarangi on the Coromandel Peninsula. In recent years he has made the transition from writing textbooks for secondary students to novels for younger learners. A widely respected figure in New Zealand educational circles, Des has been the Visiting Teaching Fellow at Auckland University and the recipient of the Woolf Fisher Memorial Award for services to education and the New Zealand Institute of Physics Award for outstanding service to Physics Education.
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