num_pages: 225
description: The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze."You the new groupie, huh?""Yeah," I said. "So?""So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?"I can't go back, I wanted to say. That was the thing about living in a group home. There was nowhere for me to go but forward.Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of a subculture of teenagers that many people would like to forget, is as powerful and provocative as his first book, Geography Club.
language: English
title: The Last Chance Texaco
titlecomplete: The Last Chance Texaco
genres: Young Adult, Fostering, Drama, Novels, Teen, LGBT, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 771
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: HarperTeen