Homestretch
By: Paul Volponi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781416939870
Subjects: Horse racing -- Fiction; Horses -- Fiction; Jockeys -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; Mexican Americans -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Runaways -- Fiction; Death -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.