{"product_id":"one-last-chance-to-live-9781339010236","title":"One Last Chance to Live","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat would you do if you had one last chance to live? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNico 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNico 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco X. Stork (he\/him) emigrated from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and his adoptive father. \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is his tenth novel. Other novels include: \u003ci\u003eMarcelo in the Real World\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Death Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Elizabeth Walden Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the Tomas Rivera Award, \u003ci\u003e Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and was a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book and \u003ci\u003eIllegal\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the In the Margins Award, the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the International Latino Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn the Hook\u003c\/i\u003e published in 2021, received four starred reviews and was the recipient of the International Latino Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scholastic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874569720082,"sku":"9781339010236","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_55b983df-feb6-443f-b5db-51684951717c.jpg?v=1737999700","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-last-chance-to-live-9781339010236","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}