Keeping Pace
ืืคืจืณ 2024 ยท Abrams
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Laurie Morrisonโs Keeping Pace is a poignant middle-grade novel about friends-turned-rivals training for a half-marathonโand rethinking what it means to win and what they mean to each other.
Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkinsโs GPA so she can be named top scholar of the eighth grade. But when Jonah beats her for the title, it feels like none of Graceโs academic accomplishments have really mattered.
They werenโt enough to winโor to impress her dad. And then the wide, empty summer looms. With nothing planned and no more goals or checklists, she doesnโt know what sheโs supposed to be working toward.
Eager for something to occupy her days, Grace signs up for a half-marathon race that she and Jonah used to talk about running together. Jonahโs running it, too. Maybe if she can beat Jonah on race day, sheโll feel OK again. But as she begins training with Jonah and checking off a new list of summer goals, she starts to question whatโand whoโreally matters to her. Is winning at all costs really worth it?
Engaging and heartfelt, Keeping Pace is about wanting to win at all costsโand having to learn how to fail.
Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkinsโs GPA so she can be named top scholar of the eighth grade. But when Jonah beats her for the title, it feels like none of Graceโs academic accomplishments have really mattered.
They werenโt enough to winโor to impress her dad. And then the wide, empty summer looms. With nothing planned and no more goals or checklists, she doesnโt know what sheโs supposed to be working toward.
Eager for something to occupy her days, Grace signs up for a half-marathon race that she and Jonah used to talk about running together. Jonahโs running it, too. Maybe if she can beat Jonah on race day, sheโll feel OK again. But as she begins training with Jonah and checking off a new list of summer goals, she starts to question whatโand whoโreally matters to her. Is winning at all costs really worth it?
Engaging and heartfelt, Keeping Pace is about wanting to win at all costsโand having to learn how to fail.
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Laurie Morrison taught middle school for ten years before writing Every Shiny Thing, her middle-grade debut with co-author Cordelia Jensen. She is also the author of Up for Air, Saint Ivy, and Coming Up Short. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.
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