Volponi, Paul.

Homestretch / Paul Volponi. - 1st ed. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009. - 151 p. ; 22 cm.

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: 9781416939870 1416939873

LCCN: 2008030024

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Horse racing--Fiction.
Horses--Fiction.
Jockeys--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Runaways--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.V8877 / Hom 2009

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]