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Marsden. Carolyn.
MOON RUNNER
Cambridge : Candlewick Press, 2007
IL 3-6, RL 4.2
ISBN 0763633046
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Mina Lee is starting fourth grade in a new school and things are going better than she anticipated.  She likes her teacher, Ms. Jenner, whose fascination with the moon allows Mina to explore her deep cultural connections and she has even made some good friends.  In fact, they have accepted her into their friendship club.  But things become tense when Mina’s new found interest and success in running threatens her friendship with Ruth.  Will these two competitors be able to work things out and still preserve their friendship?  (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2007-2008)
SUBJECTS:     Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Running -- Fiction.
                        Racing -- Fiction.

 
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