Lesley Choyce is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia. He is the author of more than 80 books for adults, teens and children. He teaches in the English Department and Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University. He is a year-round surfer and founding member of the 1990s spoken word rock band, The SurfPoets. Choyce also runs Pottersfield Press, a small literary publishing house and hosted the national TV show, Off The Page, for many years. His books have been translated into Spanish, French, German and Danish and he has been awarded the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award. Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in 1951 and moved to Canada in 1978 and became a citizen. His YA novels concern things like skateboarding, surfing, racism, environmental issues, organ transplants, and rock bands.
Series
Books
I’m Alive. I Believe in Everything
2013
Running the Risk
2009
Reckless
2010
Scam
2016
Refuge Cove
2002
Plank's Law
2017
The Thing You're Good At
2018
End of the World As We Know It
2007
Identify
2017
Big Burn
1995
Shoulder the Sky
2002
Typographical Eras
2003
Random
2010
The Summer of Apartment X
1999
Closing Down Heaven
2016
Cold Clear Morning
2001
Skate Freak
2008
Smoke and Mirrors
2004
Kryptonite
2018
Saltwater Chronicles
Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun
2020
The Ledge
2020
Second Season of Jonas Mcpherson
1989
Gone Bad
1993
Breaking Point
2012
Wave Watch
1994
Wrong Time, Wrong Place
1995
Reaction
2010
Skunks for Breakfast
2007
Rat
2012
Jeremy Stone
2014
Thin Places
2017
Thunderbowl
2004
Hell's Hotel
2009
Wave Warrior
2007
Nova Scotia
Shaped by the Sea: A Living History
2011
Raising Orion
2010
Sea of Tranquility
2003
The Republic of Nothing
1994
Deconstructing Dylan
2006
Sudden Impact
2005
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier
2019
Dumb Luck
2011
Living Outside the Lines
2009
The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil
2017
The Rules Have Changed
2021
Off the Grid
2015
Crash
2013
Book of Michael
2008
