Rayo
HarperCollins
March 2011
$29.99 AU
178p hc
ISBN: 978-0061432873
Skate Fate
Juan Felipe Herrera
from the book...
I wanted to roar out
touch things i had never touched. to see if it was true. was i still here was this life still here. on this side. whatever you call it dude. wanted to touch everything like van Gogh touched and smeared everything when he painted. so i wrote it and spoke it. maybe mama would hear me. cuz i could hear her. sayin' When your heart hurts, sing. wherever you go.
Lucky Z has always lived on the edge - he loved to skateboard, to drag race, to feel alive. But things have taken a turn—he's living with new foster parents and a tragic past. An accident changed everything. And only his voice will set him free.
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