When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.

"Three real case studies of investigative journalism about the environment tell the stories of journalists who followed a trail of electronic waste to Africa, found unfair and excessive use of water resources, and exposed the negative effect on people's health from pollution by a nearby chemical company"--Back cover.

Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys.