Lean on Pete : a novel /
Willy Vlautin.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Harper Perennial, c2010.
- 277 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
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.