LAST CHANCE JOEY IBD

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No phone, no wi-fi, no friends and no options.Expelled from three schools, Joey is sent to the country to live with his aunt. She asks him to help an old man recovering from an accident, and now he has a choice. It sounds like a crazy idea, but he chooses to help. What else is there to do, a million miles from anywhere?But when Joey meets Harry, he finds in him a friend-even if heâÇÖs eighty-five. Maybe life when people trust you might be a good thing.As JoeyâÇÖs desire for acceptance grows, break-ins threaten the community and JoeyâÇÖs past starts to catch up with him. How can Joey turn his life around when his mistakes follow him everywhere he goes? And will he be there for Harry when he needs him?After being expelled, Joey is sent to the country to help an old man. Will it turn his life around or will his past follow him? Joey is sent to the country where his phone wonâÇÖt work, heâÇÖll be far away from his buddies, and has to live with his great-aunt. His mother must be nuts if she thinks heâÇÖll go.But there isnâÇÖt any choice. This is the third school heâÇÖs been asked to leave. For fighting. Which isstupid because he doesnâÇÖt fight. ItâÇÖs an unfortunate case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sure, he disrupts every class he attends-a skill heâÇÖs proud of. Or at least he pretends to be proud of.He has to disrupt them to keep everyone from realizing he canâÇÖt read.But it turns out that Auntie Belle is not so old and not so bad, and when she asks him to help out a neighbor whoâÇÖs recovering from a bad accident, Joey finds a world he can understand.Young Harry has horses and dogs and a bull. And he has a garden that produces more food than Joeyhas seen in the city supermarket. It looks like Young Harry will become his new best friend-betterthan the ones he hung out with on the streets in the city.Young Harry is eighty-five years old. He doesnâÇÖt have a phone either-or anything else from the21st century. But even without electricity and the internet, Joey has never felt more at home. He likes the trust Harry has in him, hopes to join the local football team and he enjoys going for rides with Emily, the girl who looks after HarryâÇÖs horses.áBut thatâÇÖs until the break-ins start. Robbie, who thinks Emily is his girl, points the finger of blame at Joey and the locals turn against him. And when one of his friends from the city is revealed as the culprit, he wants to recruit Joey in his break and enters. After all, he canâÇÖt change who he is, can he? And the locals will never accept him as one of them. Or will they? And will Joey betray Young Harry?Last Chance Joey is a great read for every kid who struggles to find acceptance and their place in the world. Joey finds not only somewhere that he belongs, but also the courage to stand up for whatâÇÖs important to him and the people he cares about.