Last Chance Island
Last Chance Island
by Norma Charles
$11.95
- February 2016
- print ISBN: 978-1-55380-458-1
- ebook ISBN: 978-1-55380-459-8
- PDF ISBN: 978-1-55380-460-4
- 5 1/4″ x 7 5/8″, Trade Paperback, 228 pages
- Young Reader Novel, Ages 10 and Up
Thirteen-year-old Kalu and his young cousin, Aisha, are the only survivors when their African village is overrun by rebels and burnt to the ground. After making their way to the coast, Kalu gets a job aboard a smuggler’s boat heading for Ireland. When the smuggler learns that the coast guard is searching for illegal migrants, he abandons the kids on Last Chance Island off the west coast of Ireland. At the same time, fifteen-year-old Spike learns that her father has died and she is shipped off to live with a distant relative, a woman who tends the lighthouse on Last Chance Island. Angry with her new situation, Spike plans to escape to begin a new life, but in one of her forays around the island, she discovers the two Africans who by this time are starving and desperate for help. What will Spike do? Is it a last chance for both Spike and the African kids?
Click here to read the first chapter of Last Chance Island.
Reviews:
“With its island-lighthouse setting and international cast of characters, this fast-paced adventure will captivate young readers from start to finish.”
—Maggie de Vries, author of prize-winning Rabbit Ears
