Lesley Choyce
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."
Carrie has made a demo tape and wants to sing in her brother's band at an outdoor festival. Ernie lets her sing one song. Full of confidence from her first public performance, Carrie goes off to her first day of school. Sadly, her friends are in another class and the girls in her room make fun of her. |
Carrie has made a demo tape and wants to sing in her brother's band at an outdoor festival. Ernie lets her sing one song. Full of confidence from her first public performance, Carrie goes off to her first day of school. Sadly, her friends are in another class and the girls in her room make fun of her. |
Carrie says she'll organize everything for a camping trip if only her mother will take her and her brother and their best friends for a first-ever night in the woods. |
Carrie wants to be part of the cool crowd. |
Mick and his high school friends call it street cleaning -- four of them beating up on one guy they don't like the looks of. Mick likes the action, but he'd rather be playing drums.
Hardback Out of stock indefinitely
9780887802416 | Published: January 1998 |
More than anything else, Carrie wants to roller-blade. |
The odds are stacked against Melanie and Trent, who are trying to stay in high school while holding down part-time jobs to survive. |
The odds are stacked against Melanie and Trent, who are trying to stay in high school while holding down part-time jobs to survive. |
At first, Ryan Cooper thinks a new pulp and paper mill in East Harbour will be a good thing, providing employment for the residents of his home town. But Ryan's girlfriend Alana is more worried about the mill's environmental impact.
Paperback Out of stock indefinitely
9780887803383 | Published: January 1995 |
When Corey gets caught opening the boys' washroom window to let smoke out, he's resigned to being called a troublemaker. |
Titles
Author on:Carrie Loses Her Nerve
Carrie Loses Her Nerve
Carrie's Camping Adventure
Carrie's Crowd
Clearcut Danger
Dark End of Dream Street
Dark End of Dream Street
Falling through the Cracks
Falling through the Cracks
Go For It, Carrie
Gone Bad
Good Idea Gone Bad
Hell's Hotel
Last Chance
Skateboard Shakedown
Skateboard Shakedown
Wave Watch
Wave Watch
Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Wrong Time, Wrong Place