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Red's best friend Lance is a 'cool guy, ' the kind who hides his feelings and never seems to let anything bother him.But one day Lance's life is shattered by someone he has been trying to forget--someone who threatens to ruin his life.Should Red stand by and let his best friend destroy himself?

Fifteen-year-old Red's troubled relationship with his father, a policeman in a small Canadian community, acquires a new perspective when his...

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Overview

Red's best friend Lance is a 'cool guy, ' the kind who hides his feelings and never seems to let anything bother him.But one day Lance's life is shattered by someone he has been trying to forget--someone who threatens to ruin his life.Should Red stand by and let his best friend destroy himself?

Fifteen-year-old Red's troubled relationship with his father, a policeman in a small Canadian community, acquires a new perspective when his best friend's long-missing mother suddenly returns.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Despite occasional shifts in tone, the Canadian setting and dynamics in this book should appeal to readers. Red Cantrell and his best friend Lance Ducharme are both 15 and have an idyllic friendship. Then Lance's mother Ann-Marie, missing for many years, shows up. Red arranges a meeting between Lance and his mother, but Lance is devastated by her reappearancehe'd considered her dead. He becomes sullen and turns to drugs. Then, to avoid the pain and revelations of a custody battle, Lance decides that he must live with her. But a happier ending ensues, with understanding gained all around. The dialogue in some of the emotional scenes is disconcertingly glib. At other times, Red and Lance sound like real teenagers groping toward maturity. (12-up)
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Red and Lance have been best friends ever since Red moved to Alderton, Canada. Each of them harbors a painful secret that they can't even share with the other. When Lance's estranged mother Anne-Marie shows up in town, Red helps her make contact with him without realizing the pain this will cause. Anne-Marie has plans to take Lance away with her, cutting him off from the only life he's ever known. In his anger and pain, Lance turns away from Red, and starts hanging out with dangerous characters. Red must find a way to repair their friendship before Lance self-destructs and he loses him forever. This novel deals with important themes, such as friendship, drug abuse, and the relationships between mothers and sons. The writing style is easy to read and understand. However, the characters of Lance and Red are not fully believable as 15-year-olds. In many situations, they act much younger. The cover art also makes the book appear dated, so it might be hard to convince teen readers to take a chance on this story. It was initially difficult to figure out what time period the book was set in. The author might have been trying to leave it open ended so that the story would appeal widely over time, but use of outdated language, such as the phrase "going steady," may also turn off many potential readers. While the book's target audience is boys in their early teens, the cover art and the author's weak characterization will make this story a hard sell for most readers. KLIATT Codes: J—Recommended for junior high school students. 2004, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 225p., Ages 12 to 15.
—Olivia Durant
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Gr 8-12 For 15 - year - old Red, the family move from Calgary to rural Alberta is bearable only because of his close friendship with classmate Lance . That friendship is tested by the secrets that neither boy can bring himself to reveal to the other. Red's talented, popular older brother lies brain dead in a nursing home after a reckless auto ride when he was on drugs; Lance's mother walked out when her son was five. Both boys have to deal with fathers who are embittered by life's unfairness. Halvorson's descriptions of her home area are interesting, and she cares deeply about the characters whom she has created with warmth and understanding. While Halvorson supplies a host of attention-grabbing topicshorse-training, country music, Native American problems, child abuse, and parent-child communicationthese subplots are described in so much detail that the story does not move. Every now and then, a melodramatic, hard-to-believe turn of plot is forcibly introduced. The story's theme of retaining the love of others by giving them the right to their own choices dissolves in sentimentality. Earnest, well-intentioned, but not involving. Libby K. White, Schenectady County Public Library, N.Y.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780773673472
  • Publisher: Stoddart Kids
  • Publication date: 1/1/1991
  • Pages: 222
  • Age range: 12 - 14 Years
  • Product dimensions: 4.16 (w) x 6.92 (h) x 0.64 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 11, 2001

    exelent

    This book has far more intreage in it that other books dont have. Just finished reading it and i wish there would be a part 2 or some other book that would be like this.i recomend this book to everyone.All ages will thoughrouly enjoy this.in a scale of 1-5 ill give this book at least a 7. going to buy it for my kids when i grow up.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 1999

    I read this 13 years ago in junior high

    I LOVED this book. We read it for English class. I don't understand your other reviews, this book is the BEST! I was a kid when I read it and it's for kids right, so it's great. As kids we really identified with the characters and liked the book. P.S. I HATED 'The Chocolate Wars'

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