Runner
By: Robert Newton.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780375837449; 9780375937446
Subjects: Running -- Fiction; Poverty -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Organized crime -- Fiction; Running -- Juvenile fiction; Poverty -- Juvenile fiction; Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction; Organized crime -- Juvenile fiction; Richmond (Vic.) -- Fiction; Australia -- History -- 1901-1922 -- Fiction; Richmond (Vic.) -- Juvenile fiction; Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.
Notes: A Junior Library Guild selection