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Author:

Volponi, Paul.

Title:

Homestretch / Paul Volponi.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

151 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Horse racing--Fiction.
Horses--Fiction.
Jockeys--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Runaways--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Horse racing--Juvenile fiction.
Horses--Juvenile fiction.
Jockeys--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1416939873
9781416939870

OCLC:

(OCoLC)243960465

LCCN:

2008030024

Locations:

JYPB641 -- Albion Municipal Library (Albion)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)