For Julie Kline, who heard it before I did
For Kendra Marcus, my agent,
who asked me to be patient
For Margarita,
my partner, who simply knows it
For Lauro Flores,
who believed in me from the start
For Nicole Chang, my niece,
and her husband, Luke, &
their most beautiful children, Jeremy, Hailey,
Anthoney, & Jonathan
For my granddaughter, Rayne
For Victor Martinez, brother, sensei,
For Tom Lutz, for his eye
For Mario Garza, for the fab design draft
For my familia Herrera in Mesquite, N.M.
For my children,
Almasol, Joaquín, Joshua, Marlene & Robert
For Lucky Z.
Copyright
SkateFate
Copyright © 2011 by Juan Felipe Herrera
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Herrera, Juan Felipe.
Skatefate / Juan Felipe Herrera. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Lucky Z, a Chicano foster child, loved living on the edge until a drag racing accident left him in a wheelchair, but as he struggles to find his place in a new high school, he begins writing poetry everywhere about anything, and in finding his voice he also discovers the beauty around him.
ISBN 978-0-06-143287-3
[1. Novels in verse. 2. Poets—Fiction. 3. People with disabilities—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Foster home care—Fiction. 7. Moving, Household—Fiction. 8. Mexican Americans—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.5.H466Sk 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010014974
CIP
AC
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First Edition
EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062089120
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