• Age: 12 to 14
• Grade: 7 to 9

THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME, THE WRONG CROWD, THE WRONG MOVES

To randy it seems impossible that short weeks ago he was happy, involved and going places Now, with a less-than-brilliant new stepmother, a move to the East Coast, and a few crucial mistakes to his credit, he's trapped in a situation he can't escape Jake and his gang of bullies have fingered him as an easy mark Why? He has access to something they want And they know how to make him get it Randy is angry at his father for cutting him off from everything back home Still, he doesn't want to betray him by bowing to the pressures of a gang When it seems there is nowhere to turn, help comes from an unexpected source But Randy needs to face some hard truths about the present and his past before he's ready to except it

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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