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Bone Jack

by Sara Crowe

Ages: 12+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Philomel Books/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-399-17651-7

Keywords: Mental Illness, Ghosts, Running, Tradition, PTSD

Ash is the lead runner in this year's Stag Race, an ancient English tradition. Can he outrun the hound boys or will they catch him and kill him?