TY - BOOK AU - Laird,Elizabeth AU - Bailey,Peter TI - The fastest boy in the world SN - 9781447267171 (pbk.) : PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Macmillan Children's Books KW - Ethiopia KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Children's stories KW - Fiction 7+ KW - eflch KW - General KW - ukslc N1 - Juvenile N2 - Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, Solomon cannot believe his ears. A trip to the capital? It's unfathomable. Solomon's joy is increased when he realizes that the Ethiopian running team will be doing a victory parade through the city that day ER -