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Run, Don't Walk

by Harriet May Savitz

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When a teenager returns to school in a wheelchair after a debilitating accident, all she wants is to be left alone. However, a handicapped activist insists she join his crusade.

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Wheelchairs -- children's/young adult fiction

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Harriet May Savitz

20 Works 437 Members

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California Young Reader Medal (Nominee – Young Adult, Grades 9-12 – 1984)

Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee – 1986)

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People/Characters: Samantha Anderson; Johnny Jay

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Members: 22
Popularity: 1,188,696
Rating: (4.00)

Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 6

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Published: 1979
Genres: Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult, Tween, Kids
DDC/MDS: 813
LCC: PZ7 .S2664

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