AustLit

'The Chicken Liberation Army is an action and aventure novel for young readers and their families. "If the chickens were prisoners and had no Geneva Convention to protect them, then they needed an army to do it instead. We'd just become that army. 'Welcome to the CLA, ' I said." When Bella and her friends discover a battery hen farm where the owners are abusing their chickens, Bella is determined to investigate and liberate the chickens. So the 'Chicken Liberation Army' is formed to rescue them. This leads to a fateful camping trip, exploring a dangerous and disused mine shaft, and a horrifying discovery - what is really going on behind the wire fence at the hen farm? What secrets are being protected and why are 'they' determined to keep everyone out, even at gunpoint? Platoon Commander Bellamante won't stop until she finds the answers!' (Publication summary)