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Author
Publication Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best friends Olivia and Jessica are good runners, but Olivia is uncomfortable with competition, so when her friend talks her into joining the track team and Olivia is assigned to a long distance race, she is suddenly overcome by a fear of failure.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Alvin's twin sister, Yasmin, lands the lead role in their middle school play, Alvin is faced with the need to find something to do after school while she is rehearsing, so he takes up cross-country running (it is either that or doing homework in the library)--he has always been a fast runner, but he soon learns that distance running is more about patience and pacing than pure speed and staying in the lead, and he will have to adapt or be left...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addison Jones would love to try out for the track team, and she knows that she is faster than the other girls, but her single mom is working two jobs and every day after school Addison has to take care of her little brother--without telling her mom Addison and her best friend, Sofia, work out a plan that will allow her to run, but soon the strain and guilt of lying to her mother begins to take its toll.