Willam Grattan's GHOST RUNNERS is an impressive debut that explores themes of family, friendship, identity, and loss. Grattan gives us unforgettable characters, including Nick Stanoshivsky, a seventh grader at Our Lady of Grace, whose understanding of self and community is forever changed. Nick must decide between two friends: one is a gentle, lonely Vietnamese boy whose family is displaced by the war; the other is a troubled kid with a grudge. Set in western Pennsylvania during economic hard times--work is scarce and tempers are high--Grattan shows us how tragedy shapes and unites us. -- amazon.com
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