Titans (30 page)

ALSO BY VICTORIA SCOTT

Fire & Flood

Salt & Stone

Copyright © 2016 by Victoria Scott

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Scott, Victoria (Young adult author), author.

Titans / Victoria Scott. — First edition.

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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart—but when Astrid’s new friends give her the chance to participate in this year’s Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together.

ISBN 978-0-545-80601-5 (hardcover)

1. Racing—Juvenile fiction. 2. Compulsive gamblers—Juvenile fiction. 3. Families—Michigan—Detroit—Juvenile fiction. 4. Inventions—Juvenile fiction. 5. Friendship—Juvenile fiction. 6. Detroit (Mich.)—Juvenile fiction. [1. Racing—Fiction. 2. Gambling—Fiction. 3. Family life—Michigan—Detroit—Fiction. 4. Inventions—Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction. 6. Detroit (Mich.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S42936Ti 2016

813.6—dc23

[Fic]

2015012090

First edition, March 2016

Cover art © 2016 by Jacey, created from the following image: © Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

Cover design by Nina Goffi

e-ISBN 978-0-545-80602-2

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