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Homestretch / Paul Volponi.

Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volponi, Paul.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Horse racing > Juvenile fiction.
Horses > Juvenile fiction.
Jockeys > Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices > Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Horse racing > Fiction.
Horses > Fiction.
Jockeys > Fiction.
Prejudices > Fiction.
Mexican Americans > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Runaways > Fiction.

Walker Library - Curriculum Collection - Juvenile - 3rd Floor

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