Greenwood Lab School

Runner

Carl Deuker

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I read the book Runner. The book was about a boy named Chance who’s still in school and his dads a drunk. They live on a tiny sail bout named the Tiny Dancer. Chances dad can’t hold a steady job and Chance doesn’t make enough at the job he is out to pay the bills. So one day a fat guy that works at the Marina comes up to Chance and asks him if he wants to make some easy money. Chance listens and the guy tells him all you have to do is run down to the beach wearing a backpack and look in the cracks in the rocks to see if there are any packages. If so put them into your backpack and run back to the docks. When you get back put the backpack in the locker and go back to your normal life.  This went fine for a while but then there start to get some strange packages. They were squishy and had no smell. The fat guy told him to keep those packages on h is boat and somebody would come and pick them up. Months went by and nobody picked them up. Eventually everything went wrong those strange packages were explosives and the people smuggling them were terrorists. When Chance’s dad found out he told Chance to go to one of his friends house who was a lawyer. He did as he was told. The Lawyer told the police then they left and got on a helicopter so chance could tell them which boat was there’s. They eventually found it saw the terrorists had taken the boat and Chances dad. His dad was fighting one of the terrorists and through him over board. He looked up at the helicopter at Chance with a smile on his face and then the boat blew up. That’s pretty much the end of the story.

I liked this book a lot. It was one of the best books I have read because it actually help my attention and made me want to read it. When I started reading the book I read the first half in a day and then when I started reading it again I read the other half in a couple days. This was a great book.