The fifth book in Jon Tucker's 'Those Kids Series' of environmentally themed illustrated middle-year chapter novels, this title continues the boating and camping action, centred on three Australian children and set in New Zealand. Although it is a stand-alone book, like its precursors, it follows directly from 'Those Sugar-Barge Kids', and involves the same home-schooled Kiwi youngsters. The base plot widens with the addition of a pair of local Maori children who find themselves unjustly accused of a burglary which subsequently turns the spotlight on their supervision and precarious custody status. It takes the combined energies of the entire group of campers to set things right, at the same time learning more about their environment, interrelationships and biculturalism.