Hard Yards by Melissa Lucashenko

Hard Yards by Melissa LucashenkoRoo Glover has two highly desirable talents he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through foster care, juvenile detention and poverty. He's an athlete, aching towards the dream of Olympic qualification. He's even coping with being white in the turbulent Aboriginal family of his girlfriend. But when cousin Stanley dies in custody, and Roo finds

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