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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The day of the race, everyone hits the ground running until a local business owner stumbles over a very stationary body. The deceased is the vicious wife of the husband and wife team hired to promote the event and the husband turns to Jill for help in clearing his name. But did he do it? Jill will have to be very careful, because this killer is ready to put her out of the running forever!
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Junior Great North Run is coming soon to Newcastle Upon Tyne and Liam needs to train. But his elderly neighbor, Harry, needs a hand moving and Liam is asked to help. Little does he know that Harry ran in the Great Run as a young lad and has a very interesting story to tell!
7) Second shot
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When fourteen-year-old Leggie LaGrande, star runner on the Bricklin Middle School track team, suffers a hamstring injury at the very start of the season, he figures his shot at the Junior Olympics is over--but his coach insists that even if he cannot run he can still compete in some other track and field event, so he finds himself working out at the shot put, competing with a new student whom he dislikes.
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Formats
Description
McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
????? "I laughed, I cried and I was 100% re-inspired to stick with my own personal fitness goals"Running Outside the Comfort Zone uncovers the brash, bold, and very human sides of running, and along the way Susan Lacke rekindles her own crush on America's favorite all-comers sport.Running offers much more than road racing! After a decade of writing about running, sports columnist Susan Lacke found herself in a serious running rut. The runners around...
Author
Series
Boris (Andrew Joyner) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
School field day is coming up and Boris and his friends are practicing hard because they are determined not to let Eddie win again, but on race day Boris is forced to choose between winning and friendship.
13) Running on empty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In this high-interest sports novel for teens, Leon is devastated after an injury gets him bumped off the relay team.
"After a freak accident on the track, everything changes for Leon Kline, anchor of Gilburn High's 4x100 sprint relay team. Suddenly his future is gone. No scholarship, no college. When he meets sassy and straight-talking Casey De Vries, life doesn't look so bleak. She even gets him running again. But as he gets to know Casey better,...
Author
Series
Dixie (Grace Gilman) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dixie comes to watch Emma's big relay race at school and is disappointed when Emma tells her she has to sit and cheer and can't race with her, but when Emma trips and falls before the finish line, Dixie must decide if she obeys and sits or runs to help her best friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"When Coach Jack Swartz asked my son Harrison if he'd like to be on the Custer County middle school cross-country team, I really had no idea where it would lead."
Hal Walter's essays have been a favorite with "Colorado Central" magazine readers for many years, and have been distributed by the "Writers on the Range" syndicate. He often writes about the subject of autism and neurodiversity as viewed through his personal experiences with his son, Harrison....
Author
Series
Tashi books volume 9
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
There's a light in the window of the haunted house, and Tashi is going in. He's brave, but is he fast enough to beat two mysterious strangers in a race around the village?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
It is track season and seventh-grader Marcus is struggling at the 400 meter distance and upset that his best friend Torry jokes about his slow times--so he is determined to build up enough strength to earn a place on the 4x400 meter relay at the upcoming track and field meet.
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