Run For It

By Matt Christopher

Book Overview

Theo Gordimer is a classic 13-year-old couch potato: he prefers video games and TV shows to playing sports. Then his favorite aunt is diagnosed with cancer. Theo wants to do something to help her, but what? Then his friend Paul tells him about a 5K road race coming up. The money collected from the race goes toward cancer research. Theo panics: running the race seems like the perfect way to help out his aunt, but 5K is more than three miles! Theo can barely run a quarter of one mile without having to stop. How will he be able to finish the race?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316348996
• ISBN13: 9780316348997
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.6" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Run For It

Have you ever done something that you really think you can't do but you have to do it to save a special family member? If yes, then you're like Theo, a videogame addicted boy who hates sports, the main character in Run For It, a great book by Matt Christopher, author of many other sports books for kids. In Run For It, Theo decides to run in a five kilometer race to help the cancer foundation. Theo's favorite aunt has cancer and he really wants to help his aunt. So Theo sets out on training everyday, and soon, he changes from a fat kid to an athletic kid who loves sports-but will Theo be able to help his aunt and make it, running five kilometers? It's your duty to read Run For It and find out! Personally, I think this book is a fantastic read for kids of all ages. I really liked it and if you read it, I hope you do too!