Runner
- ISBN-10
- 0618735054
- ISBN-13
- 9780618735051
- Series
- Runner
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Carl Deuker
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk. Reprint.
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