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Run For Your Life By Reshanda Blue, December 8, 2005
The Book Run for Your Life is a really interesting book. I picked the book because the cover of the book looked interesting. When I first started reading the book I didnt think I was going to like it but I kept reading it and it got very interesting.
This book is about a girl named Kisha. Kisha is growing up in the projects. She lives in Oakland, CA. Kisha has started running track at the community center for a man named Darren who is her coach. She is on the team with her best friends Notonia, Jennifer, Ester, Shanika and Malika. Kisha spends most of her time at the community center. She lives with her mother,brother and her father. Kisha is going through a lot of problems at home with her parents.She finds out that her friends on the track team have similar problems with their parents.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone that is going through a lot of problems with their parents at home.I would rate this book as a 10. In this book I like the way the author writes exactly how a child would speak.
Run for Your Life is really a great book. It could help most teens with thier problems at home.
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It's a novel you will never want to miss!, April 16, 2003
Run For Your Life Marilyn Levy makes Run For Your Life one of the best books to read this summer. The author Marilyn Levy met the girls and the coach of the Acorn Track Club, and wrote their uplifting story. Kisha Clark, a thirteen-year old girl living in the projects, in California, thinks her summer will be just the same old thing as usual. Luckily, a man shows up on the doorstep asking Kisha and some of her friends if they would like to join a track team. Not until she joins, does she find out more about her family, friends, and especially herself. The track team sadly makes her parents argue a lot more, since they struggle financially. Also, some of the other girls in the team struggle, since you can't do drugs, be pregnant, and you must keep your grades up. When Kisha builds her self-esteem and courage, she then knows how it feels to be a winner.
Run For Your Life gives a heart-warming example of a young girl's life and what she does to achieve her goals. This astonishing true story puts you right in the shoes of Kisha Clark. Not only does it leave you with a tear in your eye, but also it teaches you never to give up no matter how worse the circumstances are. I wasn't interested in the story that much at first. I just thought it was going to be about a girl spending her summer living in the projects. But, the more I read the more I loved Kisha and the novel. Her coach, family, and friends helped Kisha achieve her goals. You think this novel would be woeful and dull, but it is surprisingly hilarious and touching. What is disappointing is how the other track teams treat the Acorn track team saying "They're from the ghetto." The events that happened to Kisha seem to be getting worse and worse in each chapter, "Lots of people have setbacks in their lives. It's the winners who pick themselves up again and go on." But when she becomes stronger, the better it turns out to be. The ending is probably the best part in the story and leaves you with more hope for the Acorn Track Club.
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Teen issues, June 14, 2002
The book, Run for your Life, is an excellent book for teenage girls to read because it deals with the every day life of teenagers and it stamps on the every day issues involving teenage girls today. Some of the issues that occur in this story will amaze you. For instance, abuse, older boyfriends, drugs, family problems, etc. These are the primary issues that surround our teenagers today. This book was about a girl named Kisha who thought joining the track team was going to help her escape from her family problems. Kisha also had friends that were going through things that were enough to keep them in tears. Tureena was a track team member whose issues were an older boyfriend who would not allow her to be a part of the track team. Kisha's best friend, Natonia, was having problems at home with her grandmother until she was forced into a new family and home. Esther, who's another team member, was also having problems at home, has a mom who thinks joining the track team will interefere with her school work. She tells her being on after school activities right now isn't a good idea. These are the same issues that ponder within our teens in today's world. If we had read this as a class in reading this year, it would've been popular with me because this book is like my life in writing. It's like someone viewed my life and put it in a book. The people I think would most likely read this book is teenage girls because these situations mostly occur in our teen years. I would read other books by this author because I think she did an outstanding job in writing this novel concerning our teenagers. She knew exactly how to make it appeal to the reader's feelings. On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the highest, I would rate this book a 5 because I enjoyed this book. I could relate to some of the issues such as family problems, drugs, abuse, older boyfriends, etc. This book was about teens and by me being a teen myself it gave me a chance to see that I'm not the only teen with problems, and I'm not the only teen who doesn't know how to deal with my problems either.
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