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Lesley Choyce
Tired of bullies at school, Colin decides to take a stand. Branded a rat, he finds that standing up for what you believe in can be empowering.
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Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce. Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial new stories including…
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When their farm gets expropriated to make way for the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant, Alexander McNab and his family move to Saint John. Without the magic of the Bay…
Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian…
Tara’s got it made - good grades, cool parent’s, a weekend job, and a boyfriend, Ron. Then, quite suddenly, many of the pieces of her perfect life start to crumble…
Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him…
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Escaping from a wilderness camp for young offenders, Cameron and Brianna end up in a struggle for survival.
Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd. Three years ago, a skateboarding accident caused minor brain damage and made him a little stranger. He spends much of his time living…
Jeremy’s band is hot - Thunderbowl is on the way up and they have had their first big break - a gig at a local bar. But in trying to…
Ben wants to learn to surf, if he could just conquer his fear of the sea.
After being the victim of an armed robbery, Sean goes in search of more danger.
Quinn Dorfman’s struggling at school and watching his family deteriorate and, since moving to a new town, has trouble enjoying his passion, skateboarding.
When Zach finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant, he is terrified. What will they do?
Randy can surf the waves better than anyone else at Lawrencetown.
Gary and his friends spend most of their free time on skateboards. The greater the challenge, the more they like it.
When Corey gets caught opening the boys’ washroom window to let smoke out, he’s resigned to being called a troublemaker.
Asked to write something for English class that expresses who he really is, 16-year-old Carson blisters the page with hate for everything in his life. Stuck in a private school…
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers List, 2010 nominee
White Pine nominee 2010
Michael Grove was sixteen years old when he was convicted for the murder of Lisa…
Random is the story of 16-year-old Joe’s digging into his past, and looking around the present, as he seeks to make sense of the world.
Jeremy, a teenager of First Nations descent, struggles through taunts and bullying after moving to a new school and community. Upon meeting Caitlin, he experiences a collision of the spirit…
Interview with Lesley Choyce –Pages 167-174.
In this whimsical free-verse novel, young Hunter quite literally propels himself out of this world and into the next after pushing his bike just a little too far. In fact…
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This literary whodunit pulls us into the world of American expatriate novelist Richard DeMille as he attempts to break the hold of his longtime friend and publisher Damien Carlyle. Now…
Quinn Dorfman a de la difficulte a l'ecole alors que sa famille se desagrege. Et depuis qu'il est demenage a la ville, il n'a plus autant de plaisir a faire…
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Nick tries to adjust to his new reality after a surfing accident leaves him partially paralyzed.
Cuando Zach descubre que su novia esta embarazada, entra en panico. ?Que van a hacer?
After 17-year-old Brandon falls out of a tree onto his head–and survives–his doctor suggests he’s had such luck he should buy a lottery ticket. So Brandon does, and he wins…
In this novel for teens, Trevor, who has Huntington’s disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully.
Tina needs to find a donor to save Kurt’s life.
This book celebrates the ordinary: the everyday disasters and discoveries that shape a life. In this, his one hundredth book, Lesley Choyce takes readers along as he writes about nearly…
Tara’s perfect life begins to unravel. Where will she turn for help?
Melanie and Craig are going to have to help each other if they’re going to survive.
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jackson gets in over his head when he tries to save a girl from her drug-dealer boyfriend.
Home-schooled and naive, Cody must attempt to fit in and stand up for what he believes in when he moves to the city.
Influenced by a friend, Craig starts taking steroids only to see his life spiral out of control.
Jeremy quiere tener exito en la industria musical. ?Tendra lo que se necesita para conseguirlo?
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Blake Pendleton is surprised to learn, after three years abroad, that things are very different at his school now.
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Tyler and his friend Mason are desperate to escape the small town they’ve grown up in.
When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down ferry service to Ragged Island, its residents see their world beginning to disappear.
Sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch starts hearing the voice of a girl inside his head. It isn’t long until he starts falling in love and sets out on a quest that brings…
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier is a tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers hoping to save not only him but also themselves.
After willing himself back to life with sheer stubbornness, ninety-year-old John Alexander MacNeil finds Death sitting at his kitchen table.
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In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jake tries to help his friend Maria after her parents are deported.
