A mentally retarded boy thinks he has bought a race track for three dollars, and until a solution to the problem can be found, only the patience and understanding of his friends keep him from being hurt by the truth.

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Patricia Wrightson was born in Bangalow, in regional Australia, in 1921. She was the author of twenty-seven children's novels including Nargun and the Stars, The Ice is Coming and The Crooked Snake. She won the CBCA Book of the Year four times and was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Dromkeen Medal and Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature. Patricia Wrightson died in 2010.

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