Runner
By: Carl Deuker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Graphia
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780618542987; 9780618735051
Subjects: Alcoholism; Poverty; Terrorism; Smuggling; Single-parent families; Fiction
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.