![]() ![]() ![]() Their father dead and their birth mother’s legs lost to diabetes, the two girls live with their father’s brother and his wife, seeing their mother once a week in an arrangement that’s as imperfect as it is loving and necessary. She does this every Sunday because their white adoptive mother can’t (“there ain’t no rule book for white people to know how to work with black hair”) and because their birth mother insists they look their best for church. In the other, she braids her little sister’s hair before church, finishing off each of Maddy’s 30 braids with three beads. Running well but second is not enough for the ferociously competitive Patty. In the first, Patty misjudges her competitors in an 800-meter race she’s certain she should have won. Reynolds tells readers almost all they need to know about Patty in two opening, contrasting scenes. African-American track phenom Patina Jones takes the baton from Ghost (2016) in the second volume of Reynolds’ Track series for middle graders. ![]()
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