Run for Your Life

Award: 
Best Books for Young Adults
Year this Award was Won: 
1 997
Press release title and URL: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/1997bestbook…
Award Win Active Date: 
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 19:00
Defunct Winner UID: 
2 845
Winner Rank: 
SLCT
Sort field for winners: 
Run for Your Life
Winner Description: 
by Marilyn Levy. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Winner Blurb: 

While living in a housing project in Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner. Thirteen-year-old Kisha tries to escape the Oakland projects & her parents' crumbling marriage by joining a track team that has been started by a new community center director. Based on the true story of a girls' track team that was started to provide an alternative to street life in one of the toughest housing projects in Oakland, California.

Title of a book, article or other published item (this will display to the public): 
Run for Your Life
ISBN of the winning item: 
0395745209
What type of media is this winner?: 
Book
Winner Detail Create Date: 
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 12:09
Winner Detail Change Date: 
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 12:09
Winner Detail Change ID: 
201
Winner Type: 
PTMD
Award Winner Category (start typing): 
Fiction