I’m a firm believer in getting shelter dogs as companions, so when I saw the book cover for Last Chance by Norah McClintock, it really touched me. Ms. McClintock is a five-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Novel, so I knew she had to have some definite writing chops. And she does. Last Chance is Book #1 in the YA Robyn Hunter Mystery series. It’s a story about preconceptions, something we’re all guilty of, and second chances, something every creature deserves.

Fifteen-year-old Robyn Hunter attended a peaceful animal-product-testing protest rally with some friends and, through a domino effect of things gone horribly wrong...Read the rest of my review at http://popcornreads.com/?p=3594