• Age: 11 to 16
• Grade: 6 to 9
• Reading age: 11 to 16

Gary Sutherland lives for skateboarding.

Gary and his friends spend most of their free time on skateboards. The greater the challenge, the more they like it. Then they discover the ultimate challenge - an abandoned pool they call the grave.

But then everything falls apart. The grave is going to be destroyed and a shopping mall constructed in its place.

Gary and his friend Sheila don't think their community needs another needs another shopping mall - so they put together a plan to stop it!

No one has a clearer view of Atlantic Canada's literary endeavours over the past twenty years than Lesley Choyce. He is the founder of the literary journal Pottersfield Portfolio, and the publisher of Pottersfield Press. He has edited several fiction anthologies and has been the in-house editor of many books from Pottersfield Press including Making Waves, a collection of stories by emerging authors from Atlantic Canada. He is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from poetry and essays to autobiography, history and fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Among his recent books are the novels The Republic of Nothing, World Enough, and Cold Clear Morning, and the story collection Dance the Rocks Ashore. Choyce is the writer, host, and co-producer of the popular literary show television program, Off the Page with Lesley Choyce, which is broadcast across the country on Vision TV. He also teaches in the English department of Dalhousie University in Halifax and is leader of the rock band The Surf Poets.

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• Winner, Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection

"Packed with excitement and danger."

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