num_pages: 216
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.
language: English
title: Runner
titlecomplete: Runner
genres: Teen, Suspense, Young Adult, School, Realistic Fiction, Crime, Family, Sports, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 3382
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt