Böcker av Lesley Choyce

It takes courage to be who you really are. Anxiety-ridden Ethan is befriended by Gabriella, or Gabs, as she prefers to be known. When Ethan discovers that his new friend, under pressure to act and dress more like a girl", is receiving threats...

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Simon får ofta ångestattacker och är ganska ensam. Men så blir han kompis med Gabriella, eller Gabbe som hon hellre vill kallas. Gabbe har sina problem. Hon känner sig ibland som en kille men blir pressad att uppföra sig mer som en tjej och klä si...

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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 "Dance the Rocks Ashore," a ...

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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 of Fundy, without the bright companionship of his little sister, Alex grows up...

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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, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It's the fateful summer between h...

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Winner, Dartmouth Book AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Booksellers Choice AwardA small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign anarchy reigns. A god-like ocean deposits many a thing, yet it also takes away. The 1960s blaze off...

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A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.One day, Declan Lynch, a restless teenager, starts hearing a girl's voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see h...

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A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.One day, Declan Lynch, a restless teenager, starts hearing a girl's voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see h...

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A tale of one man's shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers. Fifty-five-year-old Charles Howard has lost his long-time journalism job and has been swindled out of his life savings. Standing by the edge of Halifax Harbour on a foggy morni...

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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...

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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...

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Dorf a toujours ete fidele a sa devise : Si ca en vaut la peine, fais-le. Si ca n'en vaut pas la peine, fais-le quand meme. Mais il a demenage a la ville et le terrain est different. Il ne peut plus faire rouler sa planche ou bon lui semble et il ...

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Dorf a toujours ete fidele a sa devise : Si ca en vaut la peine, fais-le. Si ca n'en vaut pas la peine, fais-le quand meme. Mais il a demenage a la ville et le terrain est different. Il ne peut plus faire rouler sa planche ou bon lui semble et il ...

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Colin is tired of school bullies and other students' refusal to speak up or "e;rat"e; on the real troublemakers. When Colin does speak out against a couple of school thugs, they post an embarrassing photo of him on a social networking webs...

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Colin is tired of school bullies and other students' refusal to speak up or "e;rat"e; on the real troublemakers. When Colin does speak out against a couple of school thugs, they post an embarrassing photo of him on a social networking webs...

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Zach y Ashley llevan un tiempo juntos y las cosas van bien, hasta que un dia Ashley descubre que esta embarazada. Enseguida se enoja y culpa a Zach, pues no estaria en ese estado si el no hubiera sido tan imprudente. Pensando al principio en el ab...

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Zach y Ashley llevan un tiempo juntos y las cosas van bien, hasta que un dia Ashley descubre que esta embarazada. Enseguida se enoja y culpa a Zach, pues no estaria en ese estado si el no hubiera sido tan imprudente. Pensando al principio en el ab...

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Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent in the par...

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Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent in the par...

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Sixteen-year-old Cody was born and raised "e;off the grid"e; deep in the wilderness by idealistic parents. When his father becomes seriously ill, the family is forced to move into the city so he can get treatment. Attending high school for...

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Sixteen-year-old Cody was born and raised "e;off the grid"e; deep in the wilderness by idealistic parents. When his father becomes seriously ill, the family is forced to move into the city so he can get treatment. Attending high school for...

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Josh's mother always had issues, with drugs and just getting by. And Josh has always been the one who kept them together. But when his mom dies, he really is on his own and must find a way to look after himself. On his way to his mother's funeral ...

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Josh's mother always had issues, with drugs and just getting by. And Josh has always been the one who kept them together. But when his mom dies, he really is on his own and must find a way to look after himself. On his way to his mother's funeral ...

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Trevor has known since he was ten years old that he has Huntington's disease, but at sixteen he is informed that he has one year to live. One day while he's trying to figure stuff out, an old man named Plank finds him standing at a cliff by the oc...

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Trevor has known since he was ten years old that he has Huntington's disease, but at sixteen he is informed that he has one year to live. One day while he's trying to figure stuff out, an old man named Plank finds him standing at a cliff by the oc...

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