Little Brother is told by his brother and his friends that he’s too small to help out at the Spring festival. He’s not strong enough to hold onto a kite, and too little to hold the dragon poles. But Father says that he has a special job to do. What can it be?

The second instalment of the Ubby’s Underdogs series follows Ubby and the gang as they try to save their missing friend and bring down corruption in their 1940s pearling town in Broome, all amidst an intricate backdrop of Aboriginal and Chinese mythology. This is a gallant and thrilling tale that tests the limits of courage and friendship at all levels.

The novel’s portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown