Marathon Miranda
by Elizabeth Winthrop
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Miranda feels left out of everything until she meets a jogger in training for a marathon. Despite her apprehension about a sudden attack of asthma, Miranda starts to run.Tags
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This held up. It's one of the few books from my kidhood that I remember the title of. I read thousands of books as a kid. I liked this one because it was all so foreign to me - running, living in New York, living in an apartment. I doubt I knew that *families* lived in apartments before I read this. I thought they were for single people or couples without children.
Anyway, it held up to reading as an adult. It's sweet and funny and wry.
Anyway, it held up to reading as an adult. It's sweet and funny and wry.
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Author Elizabeth Winthrop grew up in Washington, D. C., and has written over 50 works of fiction for all ages. She has won numerous awards including the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the Pen Syndicated Fiction Award, the California Young Readers Medal and the Jane Addams Peace Prize Honor Book. Many of her children's books are based on her show more childhood memories and the experiences of her children and other children she has talked to. Her book Belinda's Hurricane is based on the time she lived through a hurricane with her grandmother on an island off the coast of Connecticut. I Think He Likes Me is based on her daughter's reaction to her younger brother when he was brought home from the hospital. Her most popular books are The Castle in the Attic and The Battle for the Castle. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .W768 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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