Bug Boy
By Eric Luper
(Farrar Straus Giroux, Hardcover, 9780374310004, 248pp.)
Publication Date: July 2009
Categories: Historical - United States - 20th Century, Sports & Recreation - Miscellaneous, Animals - Horses
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Autumn 2009 Kids' Indie Next List“Jack is an up-and-coming jockey at the Saratoga Racetrack who will have to find a way of dealing with the unsavory underbelly of the glamorous sport in order to make it big. This great book for reluctant teen readers, set in the 1930s, has a bit of everything: history, romance, conflict, and lots of action.”
-- Kelley Drahushuk, The Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY
Description
amid the rough backstretch of thoroughbred racing during the Great Depression, this novel follows a young athlete whose rise to glory in the most popular sport in America is accompanied by ever-increasing pressure to do something that could leave him trampled in the dirt.
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