Runner

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When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina. Chase knows how much he will earn—what he doesn’t know is how much he will pay.

Suspenseful, fast-paced, and timely, this novel avoids easy answers as it examines issues of terrorism and patriotism, fear and courage, and lives of privilege and poverty.

This paperback edition includes a Q and A with author Carl Deuker.

Format: Paperback
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618735051
ISBN-10: 0618735054
Pages: 224
Price: $8.99
Publication Date: 04/23/2007
Carton Quantity: 48
Age(s): 12,13,14,15,16
Grade(s): 7-12
Reading Level:
- Lexile Reading Level 670L
- Guided Reading Level Z

Author

Carl Deuker

Carl Deuker is a celebrated author of "top-flight sports writing matched to uncommonly perceptive coming-of-age stories" (Kirkus Reviews). He describes his younger self as a classic second-stringer: "I was too slow and too short for basketball; I was too small for football, a little too chicken to hang in there against the best fastballs. So, by my senior year the only sport I was still playing was golf." He was a teacher for many years in the Seattle area, where he now lives with his wife. carldeuker.ag-sites.net/bio.htm

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reviews

"The sports and suspenseful action will easily draw readers, as will the gripping adventure’s deeper issues of crime, class, ineffectual parents, and a teen’s questions about his uncertain future." Booklist, ALA
"Writing in a fast-paced, action-packed, but at the same time reflective style, Deuker uses fewer sports scenes than in his previous novels, and instead uses running as a hook to entice readers into a perceptive coming-of-age novel." School Library Journal
"Fast-paced and suspenseful." Horn Book

Format: Paperback
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618735051
ISBN-10: 0618735054
Pages: 224
Price: $8.99
Publication Date: 04/23/2007
Carton Quantity: 48
Age(s): 12,13,14,15,16
Grade(s): 7-12
Reading Level:
- Lexile Reading Level 670L
- Guided Reading Level Z