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by Juan Felipe Herrera


  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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  11 12 13 14 15 LP/RRDB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  First Edition

  EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062089120

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