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Volponi, Paul.

Location	Call Number	Item Status
Miraleste Young Adult Fiction	VOLPONI, Paul	IN LIBRARY
Peninsula Center Young Adult Fiction	VOLPONI, Paul	IN LIBRARY

Copies Available	2 of 2

Publication Info	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Year Published	2009
Edition	1st ed.
Description	151 p. ; 22 cm.
Call #	VOLPONI, Paul
Notes	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.
Subject Headings	Horse racing -- Fiction. \| Horses -- Fiction. \| Jockeys -- Fiction. \| Prejudices -- Fiction. \| Mexican Americans -- Fiction. \| Fathers and sons -- Fiction. \| Runaways -- Fiction. \| Death -- Fiction.