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1) Track Attack
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c. 2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jazz is a born runner who loves being on the school's track team. Her biggest fan is her dad--and that is a problem. He gets over-involved in her training, talks to much to the coach, yells at the track ref. and cheers way too loudly during the meets. How can Jazz tell him to stay away from the track without hurting his feelings
2) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 5
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton is entered in the Mouse Island Marathon by his friend Champ Strongpaws who then forces him to train for it.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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....
7) Keeping pace
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Determined to regain her sense of accomplishment after losing her top-class ranking to Jonah, Grace decides to compete against him in a Labor Day half-marathon, but as they train together, she learns valuable lessons about what truly matters.
8) Fast company
Author
Series
Winning season volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
9) Moon runner
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Mina discovers that she can run faster than her athlete friend, Ruth, she thinks she must choose between running and friendship.
11) Ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"--
12) Running wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Written in graphic novel format.
13) Just run
Author
Series
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Daisy Howson must set aside her controlling nature to improve the level of trust among her teammates so they can win the relay race in the upcoming track meet.
14) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Series
Weregirl (C.D. Bell) volume 1
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On a nighttime run, high school junior and cross-country runner Nessa Kurland is badly bitten by a trapped wolf that she tries to free. Nessa's quick recovery is followed by improved running times and all her senses are heightened. She has transformed into a werewolf.
16) Marco's run
Author
Series
Publisher
Green Light Readers/Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy runs so fast that he imagines himself to be a rabbit, a bobcat, a horse, and a cheetah.
Author
Series
The Flash. Crossover crisis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
18) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
20) The Ghost Runner
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.