# The Running Dream

**Author:** Wendelin Van Draanen
**Grade range:** Grades 7–12
**First published:** 2011
**Page count:** 354
**ISBN-13:** `9780375896798`
**ISBN-10:** `0375896791`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-running-dream
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story that’s perfect for anyone who’s ever thought that something was impossible. Readers will revel in the story of a girl who puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before—after she’s told she’ll never run again. Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don't know what to say, act like she's not there. Which she could handle better if she weren't now keenly aware that she'd done the same thi

## Where this book is assigned

### Schneider Family Book Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)

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