Author(s): Carol Garden

NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 2023 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults | Mystery and Detective Stories

Set in a time after the great global Environment Revolution of 2072, readers enter a high-tech world of eco criminals, artificial islands, global warming, rising seas and patrolling coastal rangers.

Like other kids of his generation, Dom has a special talent, chosen by his parents at conception. He is a human chameleon—he can blend into any surroundings and become almost invisible. Unfortunately his Anti-Ec dad, Dezi Krate, a mining billionaire set on ignoring the new planet-saving laws, kidnaps the young niece of some coastal rangers, Zoe—special talent mind-reading.

Together with her sisters, who also have remarkable talents, can Zoe and Dom and other key players in this dangerous, futuristic world outwit the ruthless Dezi?