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ISBN: 0451221427 / Publisher: NAL Trade, August 2007
Desperate to avoid being forced into an assisted living facility, eighty-three-year-old Max Boyle comes up with an ingenious solution when he encounters Chancy Deel, a teenage runaway sleeping in his garage.
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Fifteen-year-old runaway Chancy Deel arrives in picture-perfect Wenonah, Oklahoma, in need of a helping hand. It's just her luck to get it from a cranky old man named Max Boyle, who is hardly the answer to her prayers.After losing his beloved wife, Max has only his dog, Alfie, and his home of fifty years to hang on to, and now Adult Protective Services is convinced he can't manage on his own. Max would rather end it all than resort to assisted living. So when he finds a throwaway kid sleeping in his garage, he seizes one last opportunity for both of them. Giving Chancy a home just might prevent him from losing his.In securing a place to live, these two solitary souls will discover something much more rare - a place to belong...and a heart to care.
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