Scholastic Canada - Crossing The Line

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Scholastic Canada
ISBN 0-590-03850-8
168 pages
Ages 12-15

by Sylvia Gunnery

Exams, graduation, the high school prom... there's tension and excitement in the air. Bright and beautiful Elizabeth has everything she could want - a surprise sweet sixteen party, a cool and good-looking boyfriend named Cass. But she doesn't have her parents' trust. Luckily, her childhood friend Woody is always around to cover for her.

Sadly, Elizabeth doesn't recognize Woody's wisdom until tragedy strikes. Joy-rides on Cass' motorcycle go from causing a broken arm to something far worse...


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Excerpt from CROSSING THE LINE
by Sylvia Gunnery

Getting dressed that morning had been an impossible task. Mrs. Douglass had taken out the sleeve seam of a blouse so it would fit over the bulky cast, but Elizabeth knew that it looked stupid.

Even before the bell rang for the first class there were lots of signatures on her cast. Woody had written: "Some people will do anything to get out of writing exams." Carolyn's note said: "Them's the breaks." Most of the other kids just scrawled their names. She had drawn a large red heart near the wrist for Cass to write in.

She felt secure knowing there were only five people who knew the real truth about the accident: herself, Cass, Woody (who hadn't lectured her at all), Carolyn and Belinda. The secret was safe.

All the details had been worked out for the exams. She could take them orally rather than write them. The thought of spending two hours in a room with a teacher while she tried to think and talk at the same time was putting on the pressure.

How could you remember all the facts and organize them, the way you usually could, with a teacher sitting there the whole time staring you right in the face?

From Crossing the Line, copyright © 1998 by Sylvia Gunery

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