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12/5/13

Racing The Past


AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Sis Boulos Deans 
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt & Co.         PUBLICATION DATE:  2001 
AWARDS: 1995 Marine Chapbook Award  
GENRE: Fiction                     READING LEVEL: 6th
BRIEF OVERVIEW: A mentally and physical abused child.  He is taunted at school and gets in trouble often, so to channel that energy he decides to run a race everywhere he goes in efforts to leave the past in the past.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Have the student’s discuss the story with a partner and write a paragraph collectively about how they would have treated Ricky with compassion
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Daphne Wright- Valdosta State University
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