Present About Books The Running Dream
| Title | : | The Running Dream |
| Author | : | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 332 pages |
| Published | : | January 11th 2011 by Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Sports. Fiction. Contemporary. Disability |
Wendelin Van Draanen
Hardcover | Pages: 332 pages Rating: 4.31 | 23880 Users | 3664 Reviews
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An award-winning and inspiring novel. When Jessica's dreams are shattered, she puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before.Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?
As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don't know what to say, act like she's not there. Which she could handle better if she weren't now keenly aware that she'd done the same thing herself to a girl with CP named Rosa. A girl who is going to tutor her through all the math she's missed. A girl who sees right into the heart of her.
With the support of family, friends, a coach, and her track teammates, Jessica may actually be able to run again. But that's not enough for her now. She doesn't just want to cross finish lines herself—she wants to take Rosa with her.
Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
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| Original Title: | The Running Dream |
| ISBN: | 0375866671 (ISBN13: 9780375866678) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Schneider Family Book Award for Teen Book (2012), South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book (2014), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2013), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Young Adult (2014) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2014) |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 23880 Users | 3664 ReviewsJudge About Books The Running Dream
The Running Dream wasnt just a book that you would read any day and put it down afterwards. After I finished reading this book, it made me think more and deeper about the situation. Jessica, the star runner on her track team, loses a leg in a car crash. She struggles to walk or even hobble to places. This completely frustrates and agers her. She just keeps on asking herself, Why did it have to be me?! Eventually, the track team saves up enough money to generously buy Jessica a new prostheticThere was some books that a 5-star is not enough to convey how amazing they are. This is one of the books. I wish I can give it six stars, ten stars....because this book is up there on a caliber by itself.For me, what makes this book amazing is how real the story was told. This story is an emotional one and actually Wendelin van DRaanen can easily exploit the story to make us, the reader, sob and cry and feel sorry for the character. But, she didn't do it.She told the story as it is, nothing
Jessica loves to run. She runs competitively for her school, and she runs because she loves it. When the bus that the track team is on is hit by a truck, a girl is killed and Jessica, well, Jessica loses a leg. Having a limb amputated is unbelievably hard for anyone to deal with, but when your life is running it's even worse. Jessica has to deal with caring for her stump and learning how to use a prosthesis, with stares and comments, and mostly with losing the ability to be who she isa runner.
I am deeply out of step with friends again on this one, and it feels a bit like kicking a puppy to say how much I disliked a book about a runner who loses her foot but overcomes her tragedy - in theory. In reality, I disliked the prose, very much disliked the voice and hated the odd little pro-track-team/anti-other types of athletes (or bad track team whiners) thing going on. Little quote to indicate the prose before another few quotes just to vent. This one comes two pages after Jessica asks
(spoiler alert)This was a book that I couldn't really relate to. A runner loosing heir leg in a car accident...its simply just not fair. The main character of the book overcame the challenge by purchasing a iron leg and standing back up again. Although all the doctors say that just being able to stand up again is a god's bless, she aimed for her dream and git back on the track again.
The main reason why I wanted to read this was for the friendship that I thought would develop between Jessica, a girl who just lost her leg in an accident, and Rosa, a girl who Jessica had previously ignored because she didn't know what to say to her because she had CP. I guess I thought I was going to get a beautiful friendship that ended up being powerful and genuine but unfortunately, I didn't get that. I thought that their friendship was very shallow and I wasn't really impressed. I think
I was nervous about reading The Running Dream. On the one hand, Wendelin Van Draanen has become one of my favorite YA authors over the past few months, thanks to her brilliant Sammy Keyes YA mystery series. On the other, I've come to be wary of novels featuring kids with amputeeism--thanks, in part, to books like Hannah Tinti's The Good Thief, which stars a kid without a hand but reads as if the author has never talked to a person without a hand in her life. So I'd been deliberately avoiding Van
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