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Hell's Hotel
Contributor(s): Choyce, Lesley (Author)
ISBN: 1552770222     ISBN-13: 9781552770221
Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $8.54  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2009
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Annotation: Tara's perfect life begins to unravel. Where will she turn for help?
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 590
Series: SideStreets
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 4.2" W x 6.8" (0.25 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Catalog Heading - Language Arts
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts
- Topical - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 131194
Reading Level: 4.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Tara's life in Halifax is about as good as it gets--she gets top marks in her class, her parents are cool, she has a good part-time job, her boyfriend Ron edits an alternative paper.

Her life is especially good compared to her friend Janet's. Janet fights with her parents whenever she sees them, which isn't often. She spends more time begging for change on the street and crashing at the dismal squat locals call Hell's Hotel.

Soon, however, cracks start to appear in Tara's perfect life. When Ron writes an expos on the kids who live at the Hotel, Tara is forced to question his motives. Things start falling apart, one by one: her grades slip, her friends drop her, her mom leaves town. When catastrophe hits Hell's Hotel, however, Tara and Janet find themselves relying on each other more than either expected. Together they aim to make big changes, in their city and in themselves.

Contributor Bio(s): Choyce, Lesley: - 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."