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The running dream

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Van Draanen, Wendelin
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Running > Young adult fiction. Amputees > Young adult fiction. Prosthesis > Young adult fiction. People with disabilities > Young adult fiction. High schools > Young adult fiction. Schools > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:	When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
Physical Description:	336 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience:	013-up.
ISBN:	9780375866678 0375866671 9780375966675 (hardcover library binding) 0375966676 (hardcover library binding)
Author Notes:	Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped. (Bowker Author Biography)