Runner

The Runner By Carl Deuker

The Runner is a great reading experience. The life of Chance Taylor seems to be a very realistic life for a teenager. Deuker combines global concerns with worries of terrorism. Chance and his father live on a miniature unhealthy boat called the "Tiny Dancer" which is in dyer need of help. Chance learns there's a lot more to patriotism than just waving a flag, and a lot more to courage than just following rules he knows may be wrong. Chance's newly discovered job is a smuggler type run. Chance applied to work on the Marina's restaurant but was never called back. As he continued his running route that he runs daily he realized a old man that seemed to be watching him. The man approached him and offered a $200 per week job just delivering "packages " to a certain spot repeatedly. Chance has no idea what to do but thinks that it would help his father in the financial difficulties they are having. Chance and his father live on a miniature unhealthy boat called the "Tiny Dancer" which is in dyer need of help.