Book Information

  • Series: Lorimer SideStreets
  • Imprint: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
  • Publication Date: 25 September 2009
  • Copyright Year: 2009
  • ISBN: 9781552774441
  • Page Count: 152
  • Dimensions: 4.25" x 7"
  • Interest ages: 14-18
  • Reading level: Grade 3

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Last Chance

by Lesley Choyce

Melanie and Craig are going to have to help each other if they're going to survive.

The odds are stacked against Melanie and Trent, who are trying to stay in high school while holding down part-time jobs to survive. They can't live at home, and they can't rely on the social support system. They're going to have to help each other through if they're going to make it.

Previously published as Falling Through the Cracks, a Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" selection.

About the Author

Lesley Choyce
LESLEY CHOYCE is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia. A former grand champion of the Men's Open Canadian National Surfing Championships, he surfs on the Atlantic coast year-round, along with running a literary publishing house and teaching English at Dalhousie University. He also has a regular nationally-broadcast program on Vision TV called Off the Page with Lesley Choyce. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, including Carrie's Crowd and Go For It Carrie. His writing has earned him several awards, including two Dartmouth Book Awards and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for the Young Adult novel Good Idea Gone Bad. Five of his previous Formac novels have received the Canadian Children's Book Centre's "Our Choice" Award. The Ottawa Citizen calls him "a national treasure".

Reviews

"There are students in our schools that this book would ring true with and for that reason, I would recommend it for a high school library."
Susan Miller, Resource Links

Awards

One of the Year's Best -- Resource Links
2010

Subjects (BISAC)

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Poverty & Homelessness

Subjects

Gender: Boys, Gender: Girls, Kids/Sidestreets

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