Runner

When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina. Chase knows how much he will earn--what he doesn't know is how much he will pay.

Suspenseful, fast-paced, and poignant, this novel avoids easy answers as it examines issues of terrorism and patriotism, fear and courage, and the lives of privilege and poverty.

Author: Carl Deuker
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 04/23/2007
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780618735051
ISBN10: 0618735054
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure | General
- Young Adult Fiction | Law & Crime
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Poverty & Homelessness

About the Author
Carl Deuker is a celebrated author of "top flight sports writing matched to uncommonly perceptive coming of age stories" (Kirkus Reviews). He describes his younger self as a classic second stringer: "I was too slow and too short for basketball; I was too small for football, a little too chicken to hang in there against the best fastballs. So, by my senior year the only sport I was still playing was golf." He was a teacher for many years in the Seattle area, where he now lives with his wife. carldeuker.ag sites.net/bio.htm