Ghost (RUN SERIES): 1

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Then one day he spots a track warm-up and takes an instant dislike to the albino kid in the expensive tracksuit. One day while killing time in the park, he stumbles upon a track practice and ends up racing one of the fastest kids on the team—and winning.

But maybe what I like the most about Jason Reynolds’ books is that he applies this keen sense of the complexity to his characters. Like Cleary, Jason Reynolds clearly remembers what it was to be a kid — the private humiliations, the silliness, the outsized misconceptions, the way the tiniest bit of support can change a day. He’s also hard of hearing, which when my mom used to say this, I always thought she was saying “harder hearing,” which made no sense at all to me. Running is never something he plans to do, just like he never plans to get into altercations at school.

But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons -until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medallist who sees something in Ghost: crazy natural talent.

But when Ghost impulsively challenges an elite sprinter to a race—and wins—the Olympic medalist track coach sees he has something: crazy natural talent. That’s easier said than done when Brandon Sanderson is in your face every day at school, you can’t forget your painful past, and when you want a new pair of trainers so badly you’d do anything to get them. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons—it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill.One of the central conflicts in the novel involves Ghost’s desire to acquire an expensive pair of running shoes. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school running team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Charles can barely hear a thing, which is why he’s always yelling at everybody and everybody’s always yelling at him. When Ghost stumbles onto a local track team and decides to show them a thing or two (they think they can run?