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1) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
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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.
Author
Series
Neighborhood series (Adrian Fogelin) volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Cass meets her new African-American neighbor, Jemmie, and despite their families' prejudices, they build a strong friendship around their mutual talent for running and a pact to read Jane Eyre.
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
7) Running wild
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
At his grandfather's farm, Toby joins his cousin and friends for nature runs in the woods, navigating their homemade obstacle course, but fears he may reinjure his ankle in the upcoming Wild Run. Written in graphic novel format.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
11) Fast company
Author
Series
Winning season volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eighth-grader Somali American Nimo Mohamed is the youngest runner on the varsity cross-country team, but she is determined to keep up with the older girls, so she has set herself a grueling training schedule; too grueling because her body is exhausted, her grades at school are slipping, and her father, who is still very much in her life despite the divorce, is starting the pressure her to quit the team.
13) Sidetracked
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot. He spends most of his time avoiding the class bully and hiding out in the Resource Room. But the Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school cross country team, and he meets Heather, a new student who's tough and athletic and refuses to be pushed around by anybody"--
14) Addy's race
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Addy has worn hearing aids for as long as she can remember. Her mother tells her this makes her special, but now that Addy's in grade six, she wants to be special for something she's done. When Addy joins the school running club to keep her best friend, Lucy company, she discovers she is a gifted runner. Lucy, isn't, which is problematic. Further troubles surface when Addy gets paired on a school project with Sierra, a smart, self-assured new classmate...
15) Run wild
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.
16) Run for it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Thirteen-year-old Theo, overweight and out of shape, finds that with his friend's support he just might be able to run in the race to raise money to help cancer patients like his aunt.
17) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
20) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might havelived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-- and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.