Vlautin, Willy. <br/><br/>
Lean on Pete :  a novel / 
Willy Vlautin. 
 - London :  Faber,  2010. 
 - 277 p. :  maps ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 15 year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, a high school he can attend for more than part of a year and some structure to his life. \'Lean on Pete\' opens as Charley and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon, where the young man is about to take his first steps in the world of horse racing. 
<br/><br/> 15 year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, a high school he can attend for more than part of a year and some structure to his life. 'Lean on Pete' opens as Charley and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon, where the young man is about to take his first steps in the world of horse racing. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780571235728 (pbk.) :  £12.99 9780571235728 (Paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teenage boys--Fiction<br/>Race horses--Fiction<br/>American fiction--21st century<br/>Modern & contemporary fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Oregon--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>General.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3622.L38 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.912 VLA