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Summary: Fifteen year old Hemi Ratana climbs a giant kauri on the Coromandel Peninsula and discovers a human skeleton high in its branches. The skeleton is wearing a chain with a key around its neck. What does the key unlock? And what is the connection with the capture of a group of sealers by Ngai Tahu warriors on the West Coast of the South Island one hundred and sixty years before? Suggested level: secondary