Patina
By: Jason Reynolds
Contributors: Simms, Heather Alicia, narrator
Edition: Unabridged.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781508236504
Subjects: Stress (Physiology); Juvenile fiction; Family problems; Fiction; Running; African Americans; Track and field; Diabetes
Description: Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team - a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasons: to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she's been sent to since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. She runs from the reason why she's not able to live with her 'real' mom anymore: her mom has The Sugar, and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her mom's legs will one day take her away forever. So Patty's also running for her mom, who can't. As the stress builds up, it's building up a pretty bad attitude as well.
Notes: Title from web page.

Compact discs.

Read by Heather Alicia Simms.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 7 191429