T hirteen year old Ben Costas finds himself alone when his mother goes on holiday with the 'axe murderer' and his uncle, an eccentric eco-protester, disappears. Add to the mix a bossy runaway called Ange, two tenacious thugs, and a geriatric 'greenie'. Ben's struggles to reunite with Uncle Rick at an anti-logging protest culminate in a scary race to expose political corruption and save the native forest from exploitation. Like Ben and Ange, a new generation is answering the cries of a sick planet and doing what they can to protect it from the vested interests of short-term profiteering. Time to shout STOP from the highest rimu tree to the depths of the ocean.
Every voice counts.
Usually he succeeds. When he doesn't, he berates himself, because at heart he still thinks he's a dummy. Tom's Story won an honour award in the 1986 Aim Cildren's Book Awards. F rom her work with children with learning difficulties Mandy understands the importance of fastpaced, high interest books. Her aim in writing run for the trees, besides creating an exciting story to promote conservati0on awareness, is to provide reluctant readers with a role model they can both relate and aspire to.