As the championship approaches, can he prove his uniqueness one final time? As with the prior titles, the final installment in the four-book Track series is uplifting and moving, full of athletic energy and eye-level insight into the inner-city middle-school track-team experience. On top of this sobering news, he’s leading the Defenders alongside a cocaptain who isn’t pleased about sharing the title and he’s training for the 110-meter hurdles, choking at every leap. He’s special down to his gold chains and diamond earrings, but he feels a little less once-in-a-lifetime when his parents tell him they’re pregnant again. Not only was he a miracle baby but he is albino. Potentially Sensitive Areas: Drugs, Marijuana Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu’s way-literally and not-so-literally-and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means.Įxpect the unexpected in this final event in Jason Reynold’s award-winning and bestselling Track series.

Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Lu has swagger, plus the talent to back it up, and with all that-not to mention the gold chains and diamond earrings-no one’s gonna outshine him. Well, actually, he was born albino, but that’s got nothing to do with being a track star.

Lu was born to be cocaptain of the Defenders. Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds.

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