DEUKER, CARL — Runner
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 0618542981. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0618542981. Publisher's full black cloth, red lettering on spine, gray endpapers. The author, a full-time teacher and part-time writer, is the author of "High heat" (a Booksense 76 pick about baseball), "High hoops" ( a novel about basketball which received the Golden Sower Award), and "Painting the black" (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults). In "Runner" he tells the story of a young athlete working to help his dad pay the bills. Unfortunately, he finds out that he's been fooled into an illegal scheme that may involve terrorism. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 216 pp. As New in As New dust jacket .
