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Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 30
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Geronimo Stilton is entered in the Mouse Island Marathon by his friend Champ Strongpaws who then forces him to train for it.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Alice Evelyn Davis, seventeen, has generally gotten all she wants from life but when her college of choice rejects her, problems with her best friend arise, and she faces an unexpected loss, her new-found interest in running helps get her through.
Author
Series
Mia Mayhem volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mia is excited about her first superspeed training class, but a bully on her relay team leads her to lose her shadow and, worse, to snap at her friends.
25) Keeping pace
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Determined to regain her sense of accomplishment after losing her top-class ranking to Jonah, Grace decides to compete against him in a Labor Day half-marathon, but as they train together, she learns valuable lessons about what truly matters.
26) Right as Rain
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Eleven-year-old Rain must adjust to a new normal after her brother dies and her family moves to New York City"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she’s only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn’t want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it’s running – hot, sweaty, lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women...
28) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Stella and Ellie Steckler are only a year apart, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded, driven, and she keeps to herself. Cross-country running is her life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends. She goes to parties. She has a life off the course. The sisters do have one thing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly...
31) 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.
32) Running scared
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 69
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nancy's friend is set to run in a Chicago marathon but the top runner in the race has received numerous death threats. If Nancy does not catch up to the truth, at least one marathoner could end up dead in her tracks.
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.
35) Ready or not!
Author
Series
Abby in between volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Nine-year-old Abby McAdams grapples with changes in her home life, her body, and her perspective on the world as she navigates fourth grade.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Perfect for fans of The Martian, this powerful post-apocalyptic thriller pits reluctant father Edgar Hill in a race against time to get back to his wife and children. When the sky begins to fall and he finds himself alone, his best hope is to run -- or risk losing what he loves forever. When the world ends and you find yourself forsaken, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar Hill. Stranded on the other side of the country from his...
38) Running scared
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
39) The Ghost Runner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
High school senior Ollie discovers a ghost haunting a cross country track through the woods and, with his best friend and teammate, Nate, decides to lay it to rest.
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