Tara's got it made - good grades, cool parent's, a weekend job, and a boyfriend, Ron. Then there's her friend Janet who lives on the street when she can't get on with her parents. Along with other street kids, Janet panhandles for money and spends nights at an abandonned building called Hell's Hotel. Ron wants the world to know that it's adults who force the kids on to the streets - parents, teachers, police - and he asks Tara to help him publish his opinions in his alternative newspaper, The Rage. As Ron confronts authority, Tara begins to question his motives. Then, quite suddenly, many of the pieces of her perfect life start to crumble, including her stable, happy home. Her grades slip, her friends desert her and her mother leaves town. Where will Tara turn for help.
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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\". '
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I think you're going to get yourself in a lot of trouble," Tara said. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hell's Hotel, Wendy's Blues, Grafton Street, Nova Scotia, Craig Hollet, Green Bean, Portland Street, Barrington Street, Black Market, Charlotte's Web, Phoenix House, Reese Garvey, Social Services, Pulling Things Back Together, West Coast New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I think you're going to get yourself in a lot of trouble," Tara said. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hell's Hotel, Wendy's Blues, Grafton Street, Nova Scotia, Craig Hollet, Green Bean, Portland Street, Barrington Street, Black Market, Charlotte's Web, Phoenix House, Reese Garvey, Social Services, Pulling Things Back Together, West Coast New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- INTENSIVE CARE (18 Pine Street) by Stacie Johnson on page 58
- Just Like You by Leonore Klein on page 179
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