Last Chance Joey

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 won't work, he'll be far away from his buddies, and has to�live with his great-aunt. His mother must be nuts if she thinks he'll go.��But there isn't any choice. This is the third school he's been asked to leave. For fighting. Which is�stupid because he doesn't fight. It's an unfortunate case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.�Sure, he disrupts every class he attends-a skill he's proud of. Or at least he pretends to be proud of.�He has to disrupt them to keep everyone from realizing he can't 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 who's 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 Joey��has seen in the city supermarket. It looks like Young Harry will become his new best friend-better��than the ones he hung out with on the streets in the city.��Young Harry is eighty-five years old. He doesn't have a phone either-or anything else from the��21st 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 Harry's horses.�But that's 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 can't 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 what's�important to him and the people he cares about.�