The Edge (Sports Fiction)

By Ben Bo

Book Overview

No one understands Declan. Not his mother or his father or his teachers. No one but maybe his new group of friends. After moving, Declan will do anything to fit in at his new school, even if it is illegal. When he and his new friends get caught, the consequences are tragic. Given a second chance that he is not sure that he wants, Declan is sent to work at a ski lodge in the Canadian Rockies. Though he is not locked up, he feels trapped and lonely, and learns that second chances aren't easy. While there, Declan learns to snowboard and meets new friends, but ghosts of his past keep rising up to haunt him. Standing on the edge, Declan realizes that the only way to break free is to face his past, and to look forward to the future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822533073
• ISBN13: 9780822533078
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12

Customer Reviews

This will inspire you.

This is a book about a troubled teen, Declan, who loves to snowboard. He unfortunately gets into a gang that likes to graffiti on things. One day, the gang starts a fire and ends up killing themselves. Declan does not get killed. Instead he has to go into rehabilitation for about 6 weeks. This rehabilitation center was in the mountains. There was snow on the mountains so Declan couldn't resist snowboarding. The only problem is that he almost killed himself about three times. Only two of those times were accidents. The third time he tried to kill himself because he was fed up with his life. That turned him around. Now because this book isn't very long, I don't want to give out any more information because it might give away the ending. I hope that you'll read this book because it's very good and I enjoyed it. I hope that the review I gave will persuade you to go and read the book. Thanks.