When Corey gets caught opening the boys' washroom window to let smoke out, he's resigned to being called a troublemaker. In his school tension is high between black and white students, and Corey's caught in the middle. He's blamed by the principal for stirring up trouble, and he's not sure himdelf whether he's really white or black.
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"Any teenager can identify with Corey... [Choyce] tells the story tightly and effectively." (Calgary Herald )
"This is a story that teens can understand... An exciting read." (Canadian Materials ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"This is a story that teens can understand... An exciting read." (Canadian Materials ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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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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