The Boy Who Ran

Author : Michael Selden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940640006
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Ran written by Michael Selden and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the sole survivor when his village was massacred. The boy spends his days alone in the woods, feeling more of a kinship with animals than with the people who took him in but never really accepted him. Written as a middle grade novel about a Native American orphan trying to find a place in the world. The story is set six thousand years ago in the mid-archaic period of North American history.

Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545355656
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kid Who Ran for President written by Dan Gutman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for election season, Dan Gutman's hugely popular THE KID WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT is back. Humor, adventure, and excitement will draw kids into the world of elections and politics."Hi! My name is Judson Moon. I'm 12 years old and I'm running for President of the YOU-nited States."So begins this fast-paced, funny, and surprising account of a boy's run for the Oval Office in the year 2000. Under the tutelage of Lane, his brainy friend and self-appointed campaign manager, the affable sixth-grader from Madison, Wisconsin, takes on the Democrats and Republicans as a Third Party candidate who can make waves. "Grown-ups have had the last one thousand years to mess up the world," Judd tells a reporter. "Now it's our turn."

Author : John Brant
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0553392158
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Runs written by John Brant and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity. “Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until this point, events had moved too swiftly for Julius to be afraid, but now panic seized him. In another instant, he realized that his old life was finished.” Thus begins the extraordinary odyssey of Julius Achon, a journey that takes a barefoot twelve-year-old boy from a village in northern Uganda to the rebel camp of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, where he was made a boy soldier, and then, miraculously, to a career as one of the world’s foremost middle-distance runners. But when a devastating tragedy prevents Julius from pursuing the gold at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he is once again set adrift and forced to forge a new path for himself, finally finding his true calling as an internationally recognized humanitarian. Today, Julius is the director of the Achon Uganda Children’s Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Uganda through access to healthcare, education, and athletics. While pursuing his destiny, Julius encounters a range of unforgettable characters who variously befriend and betray him: the demonic Joseph Kony, a “world-class warlord”; John Cook, a brilliant and eccentric U.S. track coach; Jim Fee, an American businessman who helps Julius build a state-of-the-art medical center deep in the Ugandan bush; and finally Kristina, Julius’s mother, whose own tragic journey forms the pivot for this spellbinding narrative of love, loss, suffering, and redemption. Written by award-winning sportswriter John Brant, The Boy Who Runs is an empowering tale of obstacles overcome, challenges met, and light wrested from darkness. It’s a story about forging your true path and finding your higher purpose—even when the road ahead bends in unexpected directions. Advance praise for The Boy Who Runs “Brant proves again why he is one of our best sportswriters, masterfully weaving a compelling narrative of an African country at war, along with the transformation of a young man from athlete to humanitarian. . . . [Achon’s] life story is a shining example of the Olympic spirit.”—Booklist (starred review) “Fantastic . . . Brant does a beautiful job of chronicling the tension. . . . Indeed, his work is first-rate throughout the book, and it makes for a read-in-one-sitting story.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Inspiring . . . Achon’s difficult journey as an athlete and humanitarian reveals how sport can provide a valuable avenue of hope for those seeking to rise above tragic circumstances.”—Library Journal “This is an astonishing story about an amazing athlete who outruns not only the grinding poverty and deprivation of the Ugandan bush but brutal war and imminent death, then dedicates himself to saving his family and friends. This man has the heart of a lion. I couldn’t put this book down.”—John L. Parker, Jr., author of Once a Runner “An instant classic . . . John Brant has given us an epic, moving, and ultimately hopeful story about the power of sport and friendship to transcend boundaries and make the world a better place.”—Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code

Author : Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748132007
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away written by Christopher Brookmyre and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from multi-award-winning author Chris Brookmyre. We all make life choices. Some cause more mayhem than others. Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination. PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE 'In the pantheon of great crime writers' Elly Griffiths 'Keeps you guessing until the very end' The Times 'Offers a brilliantly scathing portrayal of humanity' Time Out

Author : Irene Elmer
Publisher : Concordia Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9780570060017
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy who Ran Away written by Irene Elmer and published by Concordia Publishing House. This book was released on 1964 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. F. Harrold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526612038
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fizzlebert Stump written by A. F. Harrold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a boy, a book, some very bad people, some very brave deeds, and the importance of rubber teeth for lions.

Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545355648
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kid Who Became President written by Dan Gutman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My fellow Americans, When I was running for President, I said you should vote for me because I didn't know anything about politics . . . or how to raise taxes . . . or how to ruin the economy. I didn't know how to get us into a war. I said you should vote for me because I didn't know anything. Well, that was two months ago, and I'm very proud to say that . . . I still don't know anything. Let's face it: I'm a kid. I'm going to need a lot of help. Here's the deal I offer America: I'll help all of you if you all help me!"

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593115007
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Author : Jerry Spinelli
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316333506
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner) written by Jerry Spinelli and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak 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. 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 : Marianna Mayer
Publisher : Dial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy who Ran with the Gazelles written by Marianna Mayer and published by Dial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy from a nomadic tribe follows the gazelle that has been his nurse, and together they join a gazelle herd in the desert.