Runner
by Carl Deuker
How would
you like to be living on a sailboat on Puget Sound while going to high school?
How
Chance
Taylor holds life, boat and dad together with a job washing dishes at Ray’s
Boathouse, so when the owner of the marina offers him $250 simply to drop a
package--under a bush--while he is jogging--Chance figures that it is probably
illegal.
The money
though, means that he can concentrate on school and even find time for the girl
he likes, Melissa. He could not have been more wrong however, because the job
is every bit as Illegal as Chance has suspected--but in any way you might have
thought!
There are
lots of subplots that move this already fast paced story along: Chance’s father
was a Gulf War hero; the man who hires him is found mysteriously dead; Chance
finds he has opinions for the first time in his life as he discusses them with
Melissa, who is also the editor of the school paper. The story never slows--we
all keep running until the end.
(Booktalk
by Mary Jo Heller, Shoreline School District)
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