Ashley Banjo & Jordan Banjo Books

This first book by two members of the Diversity dance collective is about a group of high school students who dance and whose priority is to rehearse for an end-of-year talent show and win it.

However, challenges face them including fractions in the group and school staff who want to jeopardise them. The youngest member of the group, Jax, a year 7 (and smaller brother to the group’s leader, Trey) also faces the problem of being the least respected and the most ignored, even when he is sure that a green beam of light that flashed down from the school was not ‘just’ a drone. Jax undertakes some research and finds that similar incidences have occurred around the world, but still no one takes notice of him. At school, things start to seem a little odd, especially when the dinners are served frozen and one of the teachers starts to act strangely by writing on the walls.

Jax notices the presence of green vending machines, serving free coffee. He also knows that there are strange weather patterns, and that green hail will soon fall on their school. But still it seems to be nonsense to everyone else, who are still preoccupied by securing rehearsal space. And so the story builds as more teachers, parents and pupils start to act strangely. It is not until Jax disappears, that the gang have to come together to find their youngest dance member, save their friends, families, the school, and ultimately the world. Their athletic and dance skills are exactly what they need as they battle an enemy bigger than themselves.

Full of action, twists and turns, readers of the Crater Lake series by Jennifer Killick or Shiver Point by Gabriel Dylan will enjoy this book.