Book Information
- Imprint: Formac Publishing Company Limited
- Publication Date: 1 January 1993
- Copyright Year: 1993
- ISBN: 9780887800733
- Page Count: 100
- Dimensions: 4.25" x 7"
- Interest ages: 11-16
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9780887800733
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Skateboard Shakedown
by Lesley Choyce
Gary and his friends spend most of their free time on skateboards. The greater the challenge, the more they like it.
Gary Sutherland lives for skateboarding.
Gary and his friends spend most of their free time on skateboards. The greater the challenge, the more they like it. Then they discover the ultimate challenge - an abandoned pool they call the grave.
But then everything falls apart. The grave is going to be destroyed and a shopping mall constructed in its place.
Gary and his friend Sheila don't think their community needs another needs another shopping mall - so they put together a plan to stop it!
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
"Packed with excitement and danger."
Atlantic Provinces Book Review
Awards
Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection
1989
Subjects (BISAC)
JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age
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