Kenneally, Miranda.
Summary: To honor her dead boyfriend and cope with her grief and guilt, college student Annie trains for a marathon with athletic Jeremiah, who flirts with Annie on the trails and makes her feel alive and happy and guilty all at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KENNuurali, Siman
Summary: Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUCurrinder, Michael
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Leo Coughlin's life is increasingly stressful because his autistic older brother Caleb's behavior is becoming more bizarre and even violent, and their parents' marriage is falling apart--but Leo finds an escape in long distance running, and in two new friends: Curtis, himself a potential state champion who teaches him the strategy of running, and Mary, his would-be girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Currinder 2017Maddox, Jake
Summary: Twins Domingo and Carmen Rivera are ready for the big Camp Rivals Race, when the four camps compete in an annual cross-country running competition, but this year there are problems: in the boys' race there is a pile-up, and Andy, Domingo's old friend, manages to prevent him from winning--but when Andy sends a text warning Carmen to watch out in the girls' race the twins become convinced that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADMaddox, Jake
Summary: Eighth-grader Somali American Nimo Mohamed is the youngest runner on the varsity cross-country team, but she is determined to keep up with the older girls, so she has set herself a grueling training schedule; too grueling because her body is exhausted, her grades at school are slipping, and her father, who is still very much in her life despite the divorce, is starting the pressure her to quit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADAvery, Bryan Patrick
Summary: The students in Mr. Grizley's class are supposed to set goals for themselves, and Chad puts down that he will run to the top of a local hill--but when it comes time to actually do it, he starts doubting his ability to actually accomplish the feat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE AVEMaddox, Jake
Summary: When Alvin's twin sister, Yasmin, lands the lead role in their middle school play, Alvin is faced with the need to find something to do after school while she is rehearsing, so he takes up cross-country running (it is either that or doing homework in the library)--he has always been a fast runner, but he soon learns that distance running is more about patience and pacing than pure speed and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADWallace, Rich
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WALCaletti, Deb
Summary: Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALMaddox, Jake.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADHoena, B. A.
Summary: At his grandfather's farm, Toby joins his cousin and friends for nature runs in the woods, navigating their homemade obstacle course, but fears he may reinjure his ankle in the upcoming Wild Run. Includes discussion questions, notes about obstacle courses, and glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADO'Connor, Jane.
Summary: Feeling bad about last year's Field Day, in which her slow running cost the relay team a victory, Nancy, who enjoys using fancy words, finds herself facing another Field Day and another relay race with a mean classmate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOWest, Kara
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WESNolan, Han
Summary: Last May, before Cait O'Doul died in a car crash involving the school's beloved football coach, she told Scottie a disturbing secret. When Scottie reveals this secret, half the town turned against her, certain that Scottie was lying to protect her sister and that Cait deliberately lost control of the car. Scottie isn't looking forward to starting senior year with her twin: she faces bullying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NOLVan Draanen, Wendelin.
Summary: When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VANAsher, Diana Harmon
Summary: Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman, friendless, puny, and with ADD, spends most of his time hiding in the Resource Room, but when he reluctantly agrees to join the school's cross-country team, he befriends a tough, athletic new student, Heather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ASHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ASHHeldring, Thatcher
Summary: In the summer before high school, Tessa's decision to play football, instead of running cross-country, affects her blossoming romance with football prospect Caleb, her relationship with best friends Marina and Lexie, who are counting on Tessa to try out for cross-country, and her home life with her politically ambitious mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION HELParker, John L.
Summary: Distance runner Quenton Cassidy is suspended from the track team for his involvement in an athlete protest and risks his future prospects to train on a monastic retreat with an Olympic medalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARTownsend, Peggy
Summary: Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWGoodman, Jessica
Summary: Sisters Stella and Ellie Steckler are both determined to win a scholarship and escape their stifling small town, but their plans are upset when a new girl joins the cross country team and then disappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOOParker, John L.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARWalker, Adrian J.
Summary: Follows the experiences of a man stranded on the wrong side of the country who pushes his limits to traverse more than five hundred miles of devastated wasteland to return to his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCovell, David
Summary: A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E COVMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: In 1813, nine-year-old Caroline, a fast runner, helps the residents of Saint Michaels, Maryland, as they defend their town against the British.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002