Zena and her group are Year 7 students living in an industrial seaside suburb of Melbourne in this thrilling adventure novel. They find themselves embroiled in an exciting and sometimes dangerous battle against pollution from big business.
Their fight takes them into risky, even life-threatening situations, but Zena and her friends find that when friends band together for a worthy cause, anything is possible, even defeating a corporate giant.
Chemical leak also deals with issues of racism with the hopes and fears of emigrants being fully realised in this plot.
