Knoblies
Sinclair Currie
(Vanguard Press, April 26, 2018)
With so many different people out to get him for the crime of just being himself, sixteen year old Rob McDonald does what he and his mother have always done - they run.Abandoning his best friend, Kevin, and also the beautiful April, who has only just recently acknowledged his existence, they leave their settled life on the coast and head for the hills.A broken promise sees them stranded, out of money and petrol, in a sleepy little town. How will Rob and his mother survive? What unexpected life-changing gift does he receive? And what compels him to risk entering a property where the owner threatens to shoot him, only for him to make a remarkable discovery inside?Re-united with his nerdy friend, Kevin, Rob learns to ride the rocky, sometimes dangerous, terrain of his new life, where the risk-taking skills he uses to outrun and outsmart his enemies become the same skills that just might help him become a world champion mountain biker, and start him on the long exhilarating journey towards dreaming the impossible.