Woody is a talented runner who dreams of making it to the Olympics one day, but his dreams are put on hold when he is involved in a hit and run accident that leaves a woman seriously injured. It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Characters are more than stereotypes here, though it’s the mystery and the boys’ repartee that give the novel its page-turning punch. Acceleration is a young adult novel by Graham McNamee that tells the story of a high school track star named John 'Woody' Woodson. Random House Children's Books, Young Adult Fiction - 240 pages. Less convincing is Duncan’s guilt for a death not of his making, which is presented as the raison d’etre for his need to find the sick killer. He never overexploits the sensational potential of the subject and builds suspense layer upon layer, while injecting some surprising comedy relief that springs from the boys’ friendship. McNamee smoothly integrates snapshots from Duncan’s escapades with a new buddy and his wild best friend, who lives teetering on the edge of the law, with information plucked from the diary. When the police refuse to take it seriously, Duncan enlists the aid of two very different friends to help him find out the identity of the diary’s author, who has apparently graduated from eviscerating animals and setting fires to tracking human prey. That’s what teenage Duncan finds out after he begins investigating a shocking journal that turns up in the Toronto subway lost-and-found where he works. “Acceleration: escalation of increasingly destructive aberrant behavior,” the stuff that serial killers are made of.
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