The Last Chance Texaco By: Brent Hartinger

I just finished this book the other day and it's about a girl named Lucy who lost her parents in a car wreck three years ago and has been sent to many group homes since her parents died. She has done some bad things like got addicted to Oxies and got in fights. This is her last chance and if she gets in trouble she gets sent to a worse group home. At her new group home she goes to school for the first time and gets in a fight with a kid named Nate Brandon who called her a groupie because she goes to a group home. Lucy punched him in the face and got sent to the office but the principal wanted her expelled but her consuler saved her and she had to pick up trash with Nate for the next month.

Once Lucy and Nate get to know each other they start to like each other. One night a car got set on fire and Kindle Home got blamed for it because they were by the car and people say they are all bad kids. Lucy and Nate come up with a plan to record the person who is doing this so Kindle Home don't get shut down. One night when they were out recording they heard someonce pooring gas on a car and so they ran over to the car and the cop came up and saw Nate and busted him for it. Once Nate got out of detention center they caught Yolanda, Lucy's roomate doing the car fires. Yolanda was having dreams and was setting the cars on fire because he parents were like Lucy had her parents die to a car accident.