The Last Chance Texaco
By Brent Hartinger, HarperCollins, 2004, 240 PP., Map 2008
Reviewed by Lauryn
Lucy Pitt was orphaned at age seven. After being sent to one group home after another, 15-year-old Lucy is sent to the Kindle Home. The Kindle Home is the last stop before "Rabbit Island" or what most people call it "Eat Their Young Island". "Eat Their Young Island" is a hospital treatment center, where people are locked in their rooms, kept under constant surveillance and restrained to their beds. Lucy is on the brink of giving up so she decides to make an effort to stay at Kindle Home but right away it’s getting harder for her. Then things get even harder when she gets in a fight at school, one of the fellow residents has it out for her, someone's setting fires in the neighborhood, and the funding for the home is being threatened. Lucy has to pull things together to save everything.
This is a great book for almost any age group. It will draw you in with every page. It is excellent page-turner and I would recommend it for anyone who is looking for a good book, because the characters seem real and believable.
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