Status
Available
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Series
Collection
Publication
Pan MacMillan (1993), Paperback
Description
When Lockie Leonard wipes out on a huge wave, he is thrown into a friendship with the weird, but extremely intelligent "Metal Head," Geoff "Egg" Eggleston, who joins Lockie in his crusade to clean up the pollution in his coastal Australian town's harbor.
User reviews
LibraryThing member RobertaLea
Another "down under" fun read. I really do like the stories from Australia; this was fun.
Subjects
Awards
CBCA Book of the Year (Notable Book — Older Readers — 1994)
Environment Award for Children’s Literature (Winner — 1993)
Language
Original publication date
1993
Physical description
7.64 inches
ISBN
0330274465 / 9780330274463
Local notes
It is the summer holidays, Lockie, a super-surfer, is thirteen, friendless and without a girl. Then one day on the beach he meets Egg (short for Eggleston). Egg is a bogan. Bogans dress in black, love heavy metal music, don't swim and traditionally are enemies of surfers. Lockie persuades Egg to go kayaking with him in the calm water of Angelus Harbour. To their horror the boys find that the harbour is covered in green scum and stinks to high heaven.