The Resource Homestretch, Paul Volponi
Homestretch, Paul Volponi
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Resource Information
The item Homestretch, Paul Volponi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 151 p.
- Isbn
- 9781416939870
- Label
- Homestretch
- Title
- Homestretch
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Volponi
- Subject
-
- trueDeath
- Death -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- trueHorse racing
- Horse racing -- Fiction
- trueHorses
- Horses -- Fiction
- trueImmigrants, Hispanic American
- trueJockeys
- Jockeys -- Fiction
- trueMexican Americans
- trueArkansas
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- trueTeenage boys
- trueUndocumented immigrants
- Mexican Americans -- Fiction
- trueMother-separated teenage boys
- truePrejudice
- Prejudices -- Fiction
- trueRace tracks
- trueRunaway boys
- Runaways -- Fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in teenage boys
- trueSeventeen-year-old boys
- trueStereotypes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 323730
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Volponi, Paul
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- Ages: 12 and up
- LC call number
- PZ7.V8877
- LC item number
- Hom 2009
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
-
- 6
- 12
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Horse racing
- Horses
- Jockeys
- Prejudices
- Mexican Americans
- Fathers and sons
- Runaways
- Death
- Horse racing
- Horses
- Jockeys
- Prejudices
- Mexican Americans
- Fathers and sons
- Runaways
- Death
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Homestretch, Paul Volponi
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 151 p.
- Isbn
- 9781416939870
- Lccn
- 2008030024
- System control number
- (OCoLC)243960465
- Label
- Homestretch, Paul Volponi
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 151 p.
- Isbn
- 9781416939870
- Lccn
- 2008030024
- System control number
- (OCoLC)243960465
Subject
- trueDeath
- Death -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- trueHorse racing
- Horse racing -- Fiction
- trueHorses
- Horses -- Fiction
- trueImmigrants, Hispanic American
- trueJockeys
- Jockeys -- Fiction
- trueMexican Americans
- trueArkansas
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- trueTeenage boys
- trueUndocumented immigrants
- Mexican Americans -- Fiction
- trueMother-separated teenage boys
- truePrejudice
- Prejudices -- Fiction
- trueRace tracks
- trueRunaway boys
- Runaways -- Fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in teenage boys
- trueSeventeen-year-old boys
- trueStereotypes
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