Shipped off to relatives in Oregon while his father is touring with his rock band, twelve-year-old Eli comes to love the magnificent trees of a nearby forest and tries to prevent their imminent destruction....
Chris, a fourteen-year-old runaway, joins forces with Coyote, a Chinook Indian and NASA scientist, to stop a high-powered developer who plans to build a resort in an unspoiled cove that has long been sacred to the Chinook tribe....