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Series
Hundred Oaks volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
The Flash. Crossover crisis trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Barry Allen has to do the impossible: run into the future. To the 64th century, to be exact, where he must uncover Hocus Pocus's secrets and face the evil Abra Kadabra. Meanwhile, on Earth 1, in the present, Kid Flash continues to investigate Earthworm, hoping to stop him before he strikes again.
3) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
6) Ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
Author
Series
Abby in between volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Nine-year-old Abby McAdams grapples with changes in her home life, her body, and her perspective on the world as she navigates fourth grade.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Gianna Zales loves art and cross-country running. She is not so crazy about research projects or anything involving time-management skills, and has somehow gotten to within a week of the due date of a huge science assignment with no work to show. But how hard can it be to find and catalog 25 different varieties of leaves-especially in Vermont, where Robert Frost was inspired to write "Birches" and countless other poems about nature....
Author
Series
Flash volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Follows Barry Allen as he continues his mission to protect Central City from the sinister Hocus Pocus-- but this time, a new evil lurks beneath the city streets. The Flash plans to travel to Earth 2, but instead he lands in a world where everything is the exact opposite of what he knows. Including the villain in this town. Johnny Quick looks like the Flash. He runs like the Flash. He... may be the Flash? But the only way for the real Flash to get...
10) Darius & Twig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Formats
Description
"Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"--Provided by publisher.
11) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 30
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Geronimo Stilton is entered in the Mouse Island Marathon by his friend Champ Strongpaws who then forces him to train for it.
13) Racing the past
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
14) Fast company
Author
Series
Winning season volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.
15) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Formats
Description
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might havelived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-- and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
16) Run, Billy, run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When 14-year -old Billy joins the track team, he improves his running and other areas of his life too.
17) The Ghost Runner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
High school senior Ollie discovers a ghost haunting a cross country track through the woods and, with his best friend and teammate, Nate, decides to lay it to rest.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
19) Faster! Faster!
Author
Description
A father and daughter spend a day at the park where daddy becomes an array of fast moving animals on which his daughter rides, from a dog and a rabbit to a horse and a cheetah.
20) Marco's run
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A boy runs so fast that he imagines himself to be a rabbit, a bobcat, a horse, and a cheetah.