project huia

    project Huia

 Project Huia is a fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping adventure with broad appeal for boys and girls. Set in New Zealand in the present day, the story switches between past and present as Jim tells his story to his grandson Logan. Through Jim’s recordings the reader is transported back in time to Jim’s childhood adventures with his sister Mavis. Jim and Mavis are determined and courageous youngsters with a strong sense of right and wrong. Their motivation for finding and photographing the huia is to provide evidence that they still exist and hopefully encourage an expedition to find them. On the other hand, the Carsons want only to profit from the huia. The novel raises many important environmental and ethical issues including the importance of conservation and the eradication of foreign pests in New Zealand.

 Logan has travelled to Ashhurst with his grandfather Jim, who may well be the last person to see a huia alive in Te Apiti gorge, forty years after they were considered extinct. Jim has been contacted by Ana from the Te Whare Putaiao o Manawatu Institute. Ana is in charge of Project Huia and is passionate about confirming Jim’s sighting and maybe even gathering DNA from the dead bird’s body. Wanting to make sure that she doesn’t miss any of the details of Jim’s story, Ana gives him an MP3 recorder and Jim records himself as he tells his story to Logan. What unfolds is a fascinating tale of adventure, jinxes, danger and family unity. Jim and his sister Mavis aren’t the only ones looking for the last huia. The Carsons, the town’s notorious bullies, are determined to kill the huia and sell it to be stuffed.

This is why i think Des Hunt is good writer because he has write alot of fascinating book E.G. Project huia , the tooth , so this is why i think he is a good writer .