Hartinger, Brent The Last Chance Texaco.Hartinger, Brent THE LAST CHANCE TEXACO TEXACO The Texas Company . ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-06-050912-0. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Harper Tempest, 2004. 240pp. $15.99. In an easy-reading novel format, The Last Chance Texaco offers a snapshot of the lives of vulnerable and dispossessed North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. youth who have found their way, along life's thorny path, to Kindle A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. It also includes a built-in dictionary. Home, what the youth call "the Last Chance Texaco." The residential program staff are kind, capable, dedicated, underpaid, and overworked. Add a facility manager (armed with a set of policies) who is the villainous embodiment of why group homes often don't help troubled youngsters. Mix in a true assortment of discarded, sloughed off sloughed off Medtalk adjectice Desquamated , troubled, in-conflict, abandoned, and abused adolescents of diverse heritages who have found their way into "the system" for all kinds of reasons. Allow a brief time for a string of problems to develop among the neighbors, who are antagonistic toward Kindle Home and its youth. Hartinger, a former group home staff member, respectfully portrays these youth: their loyalties, hopes, fears, pains, passions, confusion, and so much more. His narrative is woven with an awareness of how race and social class affect the well-being and life outcomes of all children in North America. Hartinger shows these children for what and who they are. This would be a terrific novel study choice for a teacher who wants to take up a contemporary book that addresses youth social issues with a middle school or higher level class. Read the book first, though, before ordering multiple copies. Some school authorities might have trouble with the author's blunt and honest critique of how "the system" mistreats these kids. Ages 12 up. Ann Pohl, York University, Toronto, ON |
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