Title: Runner
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and sons, Organized crime, Poverty, Running
Places: Australia, Richmond (Vic.)
Time periods: 1901-1922, 20th century