Albany Junior High School Library

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224 p.
Owl and Tama could hardly be more different: Owl is trying to help his family run their struggling farm, while getting used to life without his father, and Tama is a disgruntled city kid. Tama's arrival coincides with Owl's discovery of some Maori cave drawings. Owl's interest in the rock art, and the tension between him and Tama, somehow unleash a disturbing malevolence from the past. Together they have set free the forces of the ancient myth of the Pouaki, a brutal man-eater bent on destruction. Suggested level: secondary.