Synopsis:
Full Moon Lagoon, set on Cortes Island, is the story of three twelve-year olds who dive into the mouth of Manson’s Lagoon at midnight under a full moon and accidentally access a portal through time. Maddy, her best friend Cat, and Cat’s twin brother, Duncan, dive into the slipstream and resurface in 1941.
They meet First Nation grandmother, Malila, who advises them that they must find and complete a “task” before they will be able to return to their own time. When they witness her friend’s fishing boat being impounded by the RCMP, that task is slowly revealed: warn the Tagawa family about the impending internment of Japanese Canadians.
When Malila is pulled away by her midwife duties, the children are left to visit the Tagawas on their own. At a frustrating crossroad in the journey, they meet Newt, a local boy who grudgingly divulges the shortcut to the Tagawa farm but warns them against using the path that cuts through the property of Crazy Bill.
Ignoring Newt’s advice, they soon find themselves captured by Crazy Bill who believes the Chinese Canadian twins must be “Jap spies.” He ties the children up in a rat-infested wood shed overnight. Their rescue centers on Newt, who has been worried since they parted ways, but also involves Duncan’s “super powers” – the extra abilities he possesses as a result of his hearing impairment.
Newt joins the quest in order to visit his friend Yoshi Tagawa, who has been absent from school in the days following the recent bombing of Pearl Harbour.
As they spend time with the Tagawas, the children become more certain of the task; they must help this family get away while there is still time. But how can three children convince a couple to abandon their home? Yoshi directs a magical shadow puppet play and with the help of all the children, convinces his parents that they must try to flee.
A dramatic confrontation at the dock is left unresolved as the three travellers access the portal and return to their own time. Malila agrees to leave them a message, buried deep in the sand. The children make it back to the present and find the letter which tells them that the Tagawas escaped. From the letter, Maddy also learns that Newt was actually her Grandpa Paul as a boy. And from her amazing adventure, she learns what fear and intolerance can become under the right – or wrong – circumstances.
Full Moon Lagoon, set on Cortes Island, is the story of three twelve-year olds who dive into the mouth of Manson’s Lagoon at midnight under a full moon and accidentally access a portal through time. Maddy, her best friend Cat, and Cat’s twin brother, Duncan, dive into the slipstream and resurface in 1941.
They meet First Nation grandmother, Malila, who advises them that they must find and complete a “task” before they will be able to return to their own time. When they witness her friend’s fishing boat being impounded by the RCMP, that task is slowly revealed: warn the Tagawa family about the impending internment of Japanese Canadians.
When Malila is pulled away by her midwife duties, the children are left to visit the Tagawas on their own. At a frustrating crossroad in the journey, they meet Newt, a local boy who grudgingly divulges the shortcut to the Tagawa farm but warns them against using the path that cuts through the property of Crazy Bill.
Ignoring Newt’s advice, they soon find themselves captured by Crazy Bill who believes the Chinese Canadian twins must be “Jap spies.” He ties the children up in a rat-infested wood shed overnight. Their rescue centers on Newt, who has been worried since they parted ways, but also involves Duncan’s “super powers” – the extra abilities he possesses as a result of his hearing impairment.
Newt joins the quest in order to visit his friend Yoshi Tagawa, who has been absent from school in the days following the recent bombing of Pearl Harbour.
As they spend time with the Tagawas, the children become more certain of the task; they must help this family get away while there is still time. But how can three children convince a couple to abandon their home? Yoshi directs a magical shadow puppet play and with the help of all the children, convinces his parents that they must try to flee.
A dramatic confrontation at the dock is left unresolved as the three travellers access the portal and return to their own time. Malila agrees to leave them a message, buried deep in the sand. The children make it back to the present and find the letter which tells them that the Tagawas escaped. From the letter, Maddy also learns that Newt was actually her Grandpa Paul as a boy. And from her amazing adventure, she learns what fear and intolerance can become under the right – or wrong – circumstances.
