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list price: $16.95
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback eBook
category: Young Adult Fiction
published: Mar 2012
ISBN:9781459801295
publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Breaking Point

by Lesley Choyce

tagged: survival stories, runaways, friendship
Description

Cameron has been in trouble with the law more than once for breaking and entering. After his latest conviction, he's sent to an outdoors program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. There he meets Brianna, a girl who has been caught selling drugs at her school. They bond quickly, and she convinces Cameron to steal two sea kayaks and head off with her into the wilderness of bays and coves of Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. It's a fearless but ill-timed escape as a hurricane is about to pound the coast. They must use all their courage and newfound survival skills if they are going to make it back to shore alive. And Cameron suspects that Brianna may not be telling him the truth about her real plans.

About the Author

Lesley Choyce is the author of more than fifty adult and young adult books. He is the recipient of the Order of St. John Award of Merit, the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature. He has also been a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for humour and Manitoba's Young Reader's Choice Award. Choyce hosts a nationally syndicated TV talk show in Halifax, and lives in East Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
12 to 18
Grade:
8 to 12
Reading age:
12 to 18
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