Last Chance

by Lesley Choyce

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552776087
Publisher:	James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date:	02/15/2013
Series:	Lorimer SideStreets Series
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
Lexile:	HL610L (what's this?)
File size:	587 KB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

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."

Editorial Reviews

"Melanie's tough-as-nails narration is convincing."

The Horn Book Guide