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Last Chance
Contributor(s): Choyce, Lesley (Author)
ISBN: 1552774449     ISBN-13: 9781552774441
Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $8.54  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2010
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Annotation:

Melanie and Craig are going to have to help each other if they're going to survive.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 610
Series: SideStreets (Quality)
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.3" W x 6.8" (0.20 lbs) 152 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Friendship
- Topical - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 36505
Reading Level: 4.3   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
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Publisher 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.

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."