Ever consider how moles meet underground? This enchanting story, recently written with a view to being produced as an animated film, has eight original songs as the soundtrack.
Superhighway Synopsis.
Mauler and the family are moving to a house near the new face of the Superhighway, the link that joins all the villages underground. His father Digger was a pioneer of the Highway, charting its course and designing it.
Refusing help from his friend Bill, he drives to collect his family, stopping at the café to chat with Lil, only to see an old school acquaintance, Molder, obsessed with the surface and a two headed monster he believes soars across the sky. The big threat to moles who venture there.
Mauler collects the family and anxious to be in their new home they drive the superhighway, he Digger and Adrian in the front of the old pick up. Molly and Turmole in the back with the furniture and belongings.
Then disaster! A slip on the highway causes Mauler to brake and unknown to the adults in the front, the children fall out of the truck and are left behind.
Alone and frightened Molly and Turmole end up on the surface. Scooped up by a huge earth moving machine, they are lost. They know they should be able to find their way back, to the entrance, if only they had listened to Grandpa’s stories about the Mole Star holding the key to the Superhighway.
Then they meet Carmole. Just like them, a mole, who takes them in. Turmole is besotted with her beauty and her wonderful voice and Molly likes her immediately. But Carmole’s boyfriend, Don Wheezo is a weasel. A dubious businessman, who hides a secret. Those who end up as his slaves are mesmerised into working down the mines, digging for the treasure that makes him rich.
When their distraught father, Mauler and his friend Bill search frantically for them, Molly and Turmole are captured by Don Wheezo and his gang and used as bait to lure them to a trap none of them could ever imagine. The safety of the mole kingdom depends on the outcome of the boxing match as the weasels now have the map that Mauler has accidentally left behind and with it the secret to the Superhighway.
Mauler makes sure the family and everyone in the mole kingdom are safe and on the surface. Bill sets the explosives to let the underground lake flood the Superhighway, hoping the villages will not be totally destroyed but that the invaders will be flooded out.
Don Wheezo cannot be left. After loosing the fight, he is blind and despite his disability slowing them, goes with them towards safety. But in a surprising twist Don Wheezo acts to save them.
On the surface there is bedlam, as families search for relatives and friends knowing that the tunnels are now flooded and homes destroyed. Adrian and Grandpa are delighted when Mauler and the children find them and a tearful Carmole welcomes her hero Bill when he arrives having survived the flood below.
The mystery of the two headed monster is solved and Molder and Scurry get to know of the remarkable friendship between Digger and Oxford and how the strange alliance between owl and mole forged the beginning of the Superhighway.
As Christmas approaches the mole community return to their sodden homes with fresh hope to begin the task of rebuilding.
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Last update: 15-01-2010 01:01 |
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Users' Comments (14) 
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... can see this taking off..... would like to read the book, to see what happens and how the characters develop through the book..... great idea and hope more people take the time to read this..... 
