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Citations: PREVIEW: Reynolds, Jason. “Ghost By: Jason Reynolds Book Trailer.” Www.youtube.com, 19 Feb. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL8VP6cg_cE. Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.

Reynolds, Jason. “Jason Reynolds.” Jason Reynolds, jasonwritesbooks.com.

Reynolds, Jason. Jason Reynolds’s Track Series (Boxed Set). Www.simonandschuster.com, 27 Nov. 2018, www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jason-Reynoldss-Track-Series-(Boxed-Set)/Jason-Reynolds/Track/9781534439795. Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.

Reynolds, Jason. Patina Book Cover, d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781481450195/patina-9781481450195_hr.jpg.

Reynolds, Jason. Patina Character, m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41W8upiwtqL._AC_SY780_.jpg.

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Realistic Fiction + 240 Pages

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Self explanatory.

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Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks and more.

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At nine years old, Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah's third album, Black Reign, to start writing poetry. Outside of her rap, few literary works spoke to his experience of urban life growing up as a black child and then teenager in the 1980s and 1990s, and he didn't start reading books until he was 17. Which later made him interested in books.

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Who is up for the track meet on Thursday? #trackmeet #fyp

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As from the title, Patina is the main character that undergoes trauma at an early age. His father had a heart attack while Patina was with him. Soon later, her mother would become disabled with no legs because of diabetes. Now her mother has a battle and Patina is afraid if she will lose her mother. Patina does know another adult but she cannot connect well because they are two different cultures. So Emily, (The Adult) is called Momly by her because she tries to take care of them but she cannot braid hair since she is white. Patina was then sent to a charter school with mainly white people and people with wealthy backgrounds. She has recently felt sad because she had left her friend cotton. Since track was a thing at her school, she met ghost (the previous book) and the story went from there. The ending is not very straight to the point and some people may not like that. Overall, I loved this book.

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Self explanatory.

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Patina as a character is caring, very competitive and opinionated. But she is in conflict with her past and afraid of loss of a loved one. She is called Patty by her friends but the book goes with Patina. Since she is very conflicted she almost had gotten kicked off the team after her two teammates were fighting.

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The Biological Mom of Patty and Maddie. She has diabetes from eating sugar to cope with her husbands death.

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I feel like there could be multiple themes, however the one that is probably most important is that trauma usually lasts forever and comes back to haunt you, but don't let that overcome you.

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Ghost is also a member of the track team and is from the previous book, it talked about how he found his ability to run and he used his past traumas to his ability unlike Patina did. And Ghost decided to teach Patina how to use her own traumas to her advantage.

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Self Explanatory.

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Track Series by Jason Reynolds | Book Trailer