Books with title Homestretch

A runaway boy with nothing finds everything he needs, including a family, in the most unlikely of places--at a racetrack.

A runaway boy with nothing finds everything he needs, including a faimly, in the most unlikely of places--at a racetrack.

After his mother is killed in a hit-and-run by a Mexican immigrant and his dad starts to hit him, Gas runs away and works at a racetrack stable with a family of Mexicans--the kind of people his father had taught him to hate--in a story about the true meaning of family where Gas is promised glory as a jockey.