Ghost (Defenders Track Team Series #1)

Notes From Black ReadsRunning is everything to Ghost. He has spent his life running from his past, which includes the abuse from his father. When Ghost joins the track team, he must make the choice to confront his past for good, or let it consume him whole. This heart-wrenching novel will have you racing through the pages, cheering Ghost on from the sidelines. A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning 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 team—a team that could qualify them for the Jun