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Luper, Eric

Bug Boy

248 pp. | Farrar | August, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-31000-4 $16.99
(3) YA Novice jockey--"bug boy"--Jack Walsh gets a taste of the big time with his first few wins. However, a track hustler threatens to hurt him unless he throws a big race, and his sophisticated bookie-girlfriend urges him to go along. Luper evokes Depression-era Saratoga with Fitzgeraldesque panache in this boy-reader-friendly novel with plenty of gritty emotional appeal.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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