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Patina

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Length 5 hours 46 minutes
Language English
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A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this New York Times bestselling follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds.

Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track teamā€”a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves.

Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasonsā€”to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school sheā€™s been sent to ever since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. She runs from the reason WHY sheā€™s not able to live with her ā€œrealā€ mom anymore: her mom has The Sugar, and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her momā€™s legs will one day take her away forever. And so Pattyā€™s also running for her mom, who canā€™t. But can you ever really run away from any of this?

As the stress builds, itā€™s building up a pretty bad attitude as well. Coach wonā€™t tolerate bad attitude. No day, no way. And now he wants Patty to run relayā€¦where you have to depend on other people? Howā€™s she going to do THAT?

Jason Reynolds is a #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, a Kirkus Award winner, aĀ UKĀ Carnegie Medal winner,Ā a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner andĀ two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honorsĀ and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He wasĀ also the 2020ā€“2022 National Ambassador for Young Peopleā€™s Literature. His many books includeĀ All American BoysĀ (cowritten with Brendan Kiely);Ā When I Was the Greatest;Ā The Boy in the Black Suit;Ā Stamped;Ā As Brave as You;Ā For Every One; theĀ TrackĀ series (Ghost,Ā Patina,Ā Sunny, andĀ Lu);Ā Look Both Ways;Ā Stuntboy, in the Meantime;Ā Ainā€™t Burned All the BrightĀ (recipient of the Caldecott Honor)Ā andĀ My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.Ā (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; andĀ Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book,Ā 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.

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Author:

ISBN:
9781508236498

Length:
5 hours 46 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio

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Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#6,277 Overall

Genre rank:
#1,505 in Children's

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