"I knew one thing – I wasn’t going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard to hear anything that didn’t carry the sound of defeat."
Sixteen-year-old Porter Delaney has his future figured out, but his nice, neat plans are shaken when a man he believes may be his father suddenly appears in his Toronto neighbourhood. Porter knows that he wants nothing to do with the deadbeat dad who abandoned him and his sister twelve years earlier, but curiosity causes him to re-examine the past.
Unfortunately, actual memories are scarce and confusing, and much of what he knows is based on things his mother told him. As Porter looks for answers, it begins to seem that all he’s ever going to find are more questions.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- jC813/.6 [Fic]
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9781554884315 9781459706897
- LCCN
- PZ7.S54586 PR9369.H45
- LCCN Item number
- Wat 2009eb bW38 2009eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (222 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00232892 (OCoLC)855878758 (CaOOCEL)464843
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Watcher 5
- Copyright 6
- Prologue 9
- Chapter One 16
- Chapter Two 24
- Chapter Three 30
- Chapter Four 37
- Chapter Five 44
- Chapter Six 51
- Chapter Seven 58
- Chapter Eight 65
- Chapter Nine 72
- Chapter Ten 79
- Chapter Eleven 87
- Chapter Twelve 93
- Chapter Thirteen 101
- Chapter Fourteen 109
- Chapter Fifteen 116
- Chapter Sixteen 124
- Chapter Seventeen 131
- Chapter Eighteen 138
- Chapter Nineteen 146
- Chapter Twenty 153
- Chapter Twenty-One 160
- Chapter Twenty-Two 168
- Chapter Twenty-Three 175
- Chapter Twenty-Four 183
- Chapter Twenty-Five 191
- Chapter Twenty-Six 198
- Chapter Twenty-Seven 208
- Epilogue 215
- Acknowledgements 222
- Also by Valerie Sherrard 225