• Reading age: 12 to 15

"...a warning sounded at the base of his brain. BE ALERT! BE ALERT!" Ben Corbett is desperately struggling to keep his life together. Grades Eleven should be fun for a sixteen-year-old boy. But a chance of a lifetime threatens to reveal something that Ben has been hiding for nine years. His teacher is becoming concerned and his girlfriend wants to help, but Ben is afraid their kindness is going explode his secret.

DON AKER’S most recent novel is The Fifth Rule, a finalist for the White Pine Award. His acclaimed backlist also includes The Space Between, winner of the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Honour Book Award and also shortlisted for the White Pine Award; One On One, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Lilla Stirling Award and nominated for the Hackmatack Award and the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award; and The First Stone, winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award and the White Pine Award. A former high school teacher, Don lives by the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.

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