Scab

by Robert Rayner

Overview

This dark and gritty new story from New Brunswick author Robert Rayner examines the moral choices of one teen with a childhood filled with emotional neglect and social bullying, and how haunting real-life choices made when you're young can be when you're older.
Life was never easy for Julian, aka Scab. After years of being tormented by his peers and ignored by his parents, he's about to show everyone that he has what it takes to make it. But he finds himself in a situation where he has to choose between his own ambitions and the only person who's ever cared about him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552775882
Publisher:	James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Series:	Lorimer SideStreets Series
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
Lexile:	HL760L (what's this?)
File size:	231 KB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

ROBERT RAYNER is a former elementary school principal in St. George, New Brunswick. He is the author of a set of soccer Sports Stories about a gang of soccer-mad kids from fictional Brunswick Valley. Of these sports novels, Walker's Runners was nominated for the Ann Connor Brimer Award, Just for Kicks and Falling Star were both Hackmatack Award nominees, and Suspended and Little's Losers were Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice selections.

Editorial Reviews

"The unsettling choices that Julian makes will stay with readers."

The Horn Book Guide

"Well-written...Descriptions of homelessness and how it feels to be bullied are well done."

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"Rayner has captured the complicated life of a teen in a world that seems unable to cope with this complexity…A thought-provoking read. Highly Recommended."

CM Magazine