The Chinese Dinner
his is the specific type of food Coach Brody treats the "newbies" to during their special team dinner.
What is Chinese food? (or Peking duck
When "Uniform Day" arrives, Coach Brody refuses to give Ghost his jersey because he discovered this crime.
What is shoplifting? (or stealing the shoes)
Ghost is shocked to find out that Coach Brody actually grew up in this same low-income neighborhood.
What is Glass Manor?
Coach takes Ghost back to Everything Sports so Ghost can look this store clerk in the eye and apologize.
Who is Tia?
Standing at the starting line of the big race, the main character proudly embraces this legal first name given to him by his parents.
What is Castle?
Coach Brody refuses to give the runners these eating utensils until they each share a deep personal secret.
What are forks? (or chopsticks/utensils)
As part of his punishment and path to redemption, Ghost is forced to clean this notoriously messy item belonging to Coach.
What is Coach's car? (or taxicab)
Coach reveals that his own Olympic gold medal was stolen, preventing him from showing it to the world.
What is his Olympic gold medal?
To prove he knew about the crime, Coach holds up a copy of this piece of evidence featuring Ghost's face.
What is a security camera photo? (or a "wanted" poster)
Looking across the track, Ghost realizes he is competing against this cruel school bully who used to torment him.
Who is Brandon Simmons?
At dinner, Lu reveals he wishes he had a brother to see what he would look like if he didn't have this condition.
What is albinism? (or being albino)
Instead of calling the police, Coach demands Ghost clean his car to pay back the time spent dealing with this person who handles customer service at the store.
Who is Tia?
Coach reveals that this family member tragically stole and sold his Olympic medal to buy drugs.
Who is his father?
Before getting caught, Ghost falsely claimed to Coach that this person bought him the silver shoes.
Who is his mother?
Ghost proudly wears the Defenders' uniform, which features gold lettering over this striking primary color.
What is electric blue?
Sunny shares the tragic secret that his mother passed away while doing this.
What is giving birth to him?
According to the Defenders' weekly training routine, Mondays are reserved for these exhausting, high-intensity workouts.
What are hard runs? (or "fartleks")
Coach shares that his father passed away due to an overdose of this specific illegal substance, showing Ghost they share a similar trauma.
What is crack?
After Ghost makes a sincere, mature apology, this person steps up and saves Ghost's track career by paying for the silver Nikes with his own credit card.
Who is Coach Brody?
Ghost lines up to run this specific sprint distance to prove he is the fastest newbie on the team.
What is the 100-meter dash? [1]
Patty shocks the table by revealing she was adopted because her birth mother lost these due to diabetes.
What are her legs?
This is the specific name for the intense interval training drills the team runs on Wednesdays.
What are ladders?
This is Coach Brody's full, actual last name, which is printed on his old Olympic documents.
What is Brody?
Coach delivers the core message of the book, telling Ghost that he cannot run away from who he is, but he can run toward this.
What is who he wants to be?
The novel ends on a thrilling cliffhanger just as this explosive sound goes off, symbolizing Ghost running toward his future.
What is a gunshot? (or the starting gun) [1, 2]