Lean on Pete : a novel / Willy Vlautin.
By: Vlautin, Willy.
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BookPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, c2010Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: 277 p. : maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780061456534 (pbk.); 0061456535.Subject(s): Teenage boys -- Fiction | Race horses -- Fiction | Oregon -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Fiction | Boys -- Fiction | Race horses -- Fiction | Oregon -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.6 | [Fic] Summary: Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson moves with his father from Spokane, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, and when his father is killed in a mishap involving a married secretary, Charlie finds himself seeking refuge at a horse track, where he befriends a racehorse and embarks on a dangerous trek to find his aunt in Wyoming.
Booklist starred, April 2010
Publisher's Weekly, February 2010
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson moves with his father from Spokane, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, and when his father is killed in a mishap involving a married secretary, Charlie finds himself seeking refuge at a horse track, where he befriends a racehorse and embarks on a dangerous trek to find his aunt in Wyoming.
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