Last Chance
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2013
- Category
- Friendship, Homelessness & Poverty
- Recommended Age
- 14 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 9 to 12
- Recommended Reading age
- 7 to 10
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552776087
- Publish Date
- Feb 2013
- List Price
- $12.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552774441
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
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
No one has a clearer view of Atlantic Canada's literary endeavours over the past twenty years than Lesley Choyce. He is the founder of the literary journal Pottersfield Portfolio, and the publisher of Pottersfield Press. He has edited several fiction anthologies and has been the in-house editor of many books from Pottersfield Press including Making Waves, a collection of stories by emerging authors from Atlantic Canada. He is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from poetry and essays to autobiography, history and fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Among his recent books are the novels The Republic of Nothing, World Enough, and Cold Clear Morning, and the story collection Dance the Rocks Ashore. Choyce is the writer, host, and co-producer of the popular literary show television program, Off the Page with Lesley Choyce, which is broadcast across the country on Vision TV. He also teaches in the English department of Dalhousie University in Halifax and is leader of the rock band The Surf Poets.
Awards
- Commended, One of the Year's Best -- Resource Links
Editorial 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."
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