“Ready?” he said, and before I said yes he gave me a big push and I was flying. “I’ll help you up,” he said, using all his six-year-old strength to hoist my tubby four-year-old body up on the swing. This one time, the first time I can remember, we were at the swings, they were bright red swings, I can still picture them. “Come on, Wing!” he’d say to me, his little sister. And he’d turn around and grin, his baby teeth smooth as pearls. Seeing his head bobbing along in front of me as I chased him down our street, calling after him to wait for me. Wing can’t pass up the opportunity to train with her longtime crush and to help her struggling family, but can she handle being thrust out of Marcus’s shadow and into the spotlight? "The swiftly paced story will quickly sweep up readers. well-crafted, inspirational debut with plenty of heart, hope, and determination." - Booklist "A story showing how hope and love can blossom in the midst of chaos." -Publishers Weekly And better still, an opportunity at a coveted sponsorship from a major athletic gear company. When Aaron, Marcus’s best friend, sees her running one night, he recognizes that her speed, skill, and agility could get her spot on the track team. Every night, unable to sleep, Wing finds herself sneaking out to go to the school’s empty track. In addition to all this, Wing is scared that the bank is going to repossess her home because her family can’t afford Marcus’s mounting medical bills. She is tormented at school for Marcus’s mistake, haunted at home by her mother and grandmothers’ grief. With Marcus now in a coma, Wing is crushed, confused, and angry. Until the night everything changes when Marcus, drunk at the wheel after a party, kills two people and barely survives himself. Good-looking, popular, and the star of the football team, Marcus is everything his sister is not. Wing Jones, like everyone else in her town, has worshipped her older brother, Marcus, for as long as she can remember. Jandy Nelson meets Friday Night Lights in this sweeping, warm, arrestingly original novel about family, poverty, and hope.
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