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One Last Chance to Live

Author: Stork, Francisco X

Follett Number: 2996RE7
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2024
Format: 304 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-33901-023-6
ISBN-10: 1-33901-023-2
LCCN: 2024-007718
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Bildungsromans
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Fiction
Death Fiction
Diaries Fiction
Diary Fiction
Drug Traffic Fiction
Loss Fiction
Mexican Americans Fiction
Romance Fiction
Teenagers Fiction
Includes bibliographical references. NIco, a Bronx high school senior surrounded by gangs and drugs, records how he comes to terms with the death of the girl he loved and finds a reason to move on with life.

From the publisher:
What would you do if you had one last chance to live? Nico has always believed in his dreams. Especially the dream he has of becoming a writer; it's the reason why he started taking a creative writing class his senior year of high school. But then Nico has a dream about his own funeral. A dream that feels too real to ignore. In it, Rosario is beckoning to him. Rosario was Nico's neighbor, his best friend's girlfriend, and his inspiration. She was also the girl that Nico was in love with. And Rosario died last year. Nico becomes obsessed with figuring out what Rosario was trying to say to him, and how she died. Surely if he can make sense of her death, he can find a way to prevent his own? But at the same time, Nico's mom is sick, and his brother is falling down a bad path with a local gang. Nico knows it's on him to step up and take care of his family -- but how can he keep it together when, like Rosario, he sees how easy it might be to just let go of it all. This searingly beautiful and hopeful novel is about the search for a life of meaning and creativity, while also accepting the flawed life that we're given. It's a love story between a teen boy and the girl who still haunts his dreams.

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