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  • ISBN: 0060509147
  • Category: Teenagers
  • Author: Brent Hartinger
  • Subcategory: Literature & Fiction
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: HarperTeen; Reprint edition (March 15, 2005)
  • Pages: 228 pages
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  • EPUB size: 1723 kb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 160
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Brent Hartinger is the author of many award-winning plays, screenplays, and novels, most of which are written for teenagers. Brent Hartinger, The Last Chance Texaco. Thank you for reading books on BookFrom. If a book is anything like a house, this one had a very strong foundation. The following groups and individuals have been essential in the construction of this book and of my entire writing career. All thanks must begin with my partner since 1992, Michael Jensen.

Home Brent Hartinger The Last Chance Texaco. I wanted to follow her, to give her a chance to talk, and I even took a couple of steps after her. But I wanted to hear the rest of the conversation in the office even more. Yolanda could wait, but Megan and the counselors wouldn't. The last chance texaco, . 1.

Hartinger, Brent wanted to be together. We'd also had to keep picking up garbage, but hey, you can't have everything. I had a strict four o'clock check-in time, so I had to leave right at the end of detention. When I explained this to Nate, he seemed to understand. All the way home on the bus, I kept thinking about what had happened.

by. Brent Hartinger (Author). Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Thanks, Brent Hartinger, for the chuckle as Lucy and Nate detailed what unlikely things they'd found while picking up trash. 5 people found this helpful. This book seems so much richer than Hartinger's other books. It illuminates the struggles of adolescents in emotional trauma; the walls and defenses utilized for survival in the toughest of situations. I like the fact that Hartinger's doesn't employee the tired teen stereotypes in his characters (other than the jock as the love interest).

Brent Hartinger (born 1971) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his novels about gay teenagers. Hartinger was born in 1971 in Washington State and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from. He earned a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and studied for a masters in psychology at Western Washington University.

The Last Chance Texaco By Brent Hartinger. 4) Throughout the book, Lucy frequently confronts barriers of some sort: sticky doors, blocked views, crowded or blocked hallways, a Plexiglas window. Fifteen years old and parentless, Lucy Pitt has spent the last eight years being shifted from one foster home to another. Among the residents, Kindle Home is known as the Last Chance Texaco, because it’s the last stop before being shipped off to the high-security juvenile detention center on nearby Rabbit Island–better known as Eat-Their-Young Island to anyone who knows what it‘s really like.

The Last Chance Texaco book. Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of a subculture of teenagers that many people would like to forget, is as powerful and provocative as his first book, Geography Club.

Books By This Author. The Last Chance Texaco. Adolescence, Orphans, Foster home care.

Praise for the last chance texaco: Hartinger draws on his own previous experience as a group-home .

Praise for the last chance texaco: Hartinger draws on his own previous experience as a group-home counselor to write a fast-paced, riveting story filled with multi-dimensional characters who command our admiration as they struggle against their personal demons. This book should have wide appeal to parents and adolescents alike. Grade: A – Rocky Mountain News. Don’t pass this one up! –MyShelf.

The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze.

"You the new groupie, huh?"

"Yeah," I said. "So?"

"So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?"

I can't go back, I wanted to say. That was the thing about living in a group home. There was nowhere for me to go but forward.

Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of a subculture of teenagers that many people would like to forget, is as powerful and provocative as his first book, Geography Club.


Reviews about Last Chance Texaco, The (7):
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Overall, I truly enjoyed "The Last Chance Texaco"--interesting title, nice cover, compelling premise, solid writing, an appropriate presentation of the types of issues a teen might face in the child welfare system for adolescent readers, a bit of a mystery, and a convincing and relatively unexpected conclusion to that mystery. Now, realize, I'm writing as an adult reader (also, an adult reader with a bit of experience in the child welfare/juvenile justice arenas.), but here's what I would've liked to have seen handled differently. Mainly, I was thrown by those things that seemed unrealistic or were outright unbelievable (e.g., no teen girl could show up at a juvenile detention facility, claim to be a relative, and be let in with no questions asked--much less be allowed personal contact). I wish Nate had been a more three-dimensional character--more than "rich, good-looking guy who falls in love with Lucy starting with a punch in the mouth and the offer of Happy Meal trash"--that way, I could've suspended disbelief as their relationship went from fisticuffs to kissing in the matter of days.

(Thanks, Brent Hartinger, for the chuckle as Lucy and Nate detailed what unlikely things they'd found while picking up trash.)
Fordredor
Lucy is a troubled orphan now living in a group home called Kindle, which is nicknamed The Last Chance Texaco since it's the last stop before Rabbit Island. The island is for teens who are beyond help. Kindle Home is actually pretty neat with the counselors and other caretakers, but Lucy encounters the group home bully, Joy, and classmates at school who look down on "groupies." These antagonists place Lucy in quite a few compromising positions. When a rash of car fires happens in the area, people are pointing fingers at the group home teens. Lucy doesn't want Kindle to close its doors because of the reputations of the inhabitants. If Kindle shuts down, she'll be headed to Rabbit Island, aka Eat-Their-Young-Island, which she's adamantly against. She sets out to find who's setting these fires. There are a few suspects who either dislike Lucy or Kindle overall. Hartinger developed an interesting cast of characters in both the teens and adults. Also, the mounting suspense and mystery had me on the edge of my seat.
Darksinger
I thoroughly enjoyed this YA tale. It was a fairly quick read, as most YA novels tend to be, but was packed with a powerful punch. I could never imagine what it would be like to live in a group home. Especially in one that was specifically for wayward teens. Wayward orphaned teens. When I was a teen, my mum worked in group homes for the mentally and physically handicapped. I learned a lot through her and remember fondly the time we took all the housemates to the zoo. But that was something completely different. The Last Chance Texaco was like the last stop before the dreaded Island, the worst group home in all the state. I found it difficult to read about how much everyone hated the Groupies. There never seemed a reason why and it appeared very hurtful. I think I enjoyed this mostly because it portrayed much hope for the Groupies lost in the system, and lost without love.
SING
This book seems so much richer than Hartinger's other books. It illuminates the struggles of adolescents in emotional trauma; the walls and defenses utilized for survival in the toughest of situations. I like the fact that Hartinger's doesn't employee the tired teen stereotypes in his characters (other than the jock as the love interest). The other characters were freshly drawn and spoke without the usual teen hipness used so often in YA novels. The plot could have been a little more creative, but the strength of his characters more than made up for other weaknesses. It was wonderful watching the protagonist evolve and learn to trust.
Iell
I've got this when the author offered it as a discount, having read other books of his. Just like his other stories, good characters, a plot that keeps you interested and you can tell the author cares about his work and the charters. Different angle then some of his other books, but defiantly worth reading, even without the discount price. Unlike other books I've read I feel like I owe the author more for his work. Guess I'll have to grab his next release to make up for it.
Heri
I am not a teen, but a grandmother. However when I come across a book that sounds interesting and has great reviews I'm willing to try it out. I loved this book. Great story, great characters--Lucy was so easy to fall in love with. There are some grammatical errors but they were a minor distraction. I would recommend this book to anyone of any age who likes a good story.
Rko
Still have yet to read this as I have a bunch of books to get through. Will try to remember to revisit this review once read and write what I thought about it. Sorry for not having anything better to post.
This was the 1st Brent book that I acutally cared about the main character. I cared what happened to her - but the things that did happen in this book were very forced and very predictable. That made reading this book difficult - it's not really longer than a short story but took me several sittings to get though. Average.

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