The Runner cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.0
Points 9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 63003
Points per Word 0.000143
Page Count 217
Points per Page 0.041475

Description

In this prequel to DICEY'S SONG and HOMECOMING, eighteen-year-old Samuel "Bullet" Tillerman begins to question his racial prejudices when a black student joins the school track team.