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Molly has always lived in her sister's shadow and her feelings for her sister have run the gamut. But when her sister, a world-class runner, suffers a heart attack and does not regain consciousness, Molly must make the tough decisions in a role that will destroy some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.
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Hundred Oaks volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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To honor her dead boyfriend and cope with her grief and guilt, college student Annie trains for a marathon with athletic Jeremiah, who flirts with Annie on the trails and makes her feel alive and happy and guilty all at the same time.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 30
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Geronimo Stilton is entered in the Mouse Island Marathon by his friend Champ Strongpaws who then forces him to train for it.
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[2020]
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Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly...
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Emma Caldridge thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
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Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage. An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those...
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2020.
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"It has been fifteen months since Eva and Angela lost their thrill-seeking husbands in a scuba diving accident. Both women are trying to navigate their way through the grief, but neither one is making much progress. Angela is barely making ends meet, angry at her husband for leaving her to raise three children on her own. Meanwhile, Eva is stuck, unable to move forward after losing the love of her life and her source of inspiration. But then Eva gets...
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Nancy Drew Files volume 69
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Nancy's friend is set to run in a Chicago marathon but the top runner in the race has received numerous death threats. If Nancy does not catch up to the truth, at least one marathoner could end up dead in her tracks.
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Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super mystery volume 22
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Nancy and the Hardy Boys investigate a case involving two Cactus Marathon runners.
11) Half Moon summer
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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Two seventh graders, Drew and Mia, spend their summer in Half Moon Bay, California, training for a half-marathon, and supporting each other as their families struggle with medical and financial problems.
13) Tyson's run
Pub. Date
2022
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An unathletic boy with autism strives to become an unlikely marathon champion giving his unfulfilled father purpose and a second chance at putting his family first.
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