A newcomer to the track team, Patina must learn to lean on her teammates as she tries to outrun her own demons in this follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from completely different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four middle schoolers who were chosen for an elite track team...a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves.
Patina--call her "Patty," please--runs like a bolt of lightning. She runs for a lot of reasons: to escape the taunts of the students at the fancy school her foster parents sent her to ever since Patty and her little sister moved in with them. She runs to escape people's stares when they see her with her white "mom"--a stare of pity. She runs to escape the reason why she can no longer live with her "real" mom--her mom has "the sugar," and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her mom's legs will one day return and take her once and for all. So Patty also runs
for her mom, who can't. But is it really possible to outrun all of this? The stress builds up, and with it a pretty negative attitude has also set in. And the coach doesn't tolerate negative attitudes. Not today, not tomorrow. And now he wants Patty to run the relay race...where she has to
depend on others? And how is Patty supposed to do THAT?
Author: Jason ReynoldsPublisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781665927598
ISBN10: 1665927593
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:-
Juvenile Fiction |
Sports & Recreation | General-
Juvenile Fiction |
Family | Adoption-
Juvenile Fiction |
Social Themes | FriendshipAbout the Author
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; Stamped; As Brave as You; For Every One; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu, and Coach); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy, in the Meantime; Stuntboy, In-Between Time; Miles Morales Suspended; Ain't Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
Alexis Romay is the author of two novels and two books of poetry. His essays and opinion pieces have been published by
NBC News,
World Literature Today, Museum of Modern Art,
El Nuevo Herald,
Latino Rebels,
Hypermedia Magazine,
Replicante,
Letras Libres, and other outlets. He has written lyrics for Paquito D'Rivera and translated over forty picture books, as well as novels by Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, Miguel Correa Mujica, Meg Medina, Stuart Gibbs, and Adrianna Cuevas. He lives in New Jersey with his family.
