<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:dee245c4-3b88-4619-9e94-4ec12973b3a1" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><hr/> <p class="center">Houghton Mifflin Company<br/> Boston 2005</p> <hr/> <blockquote> <p class="center"><em>The author would like to thank the editor of this book</em>,<br/> <em>Ann Rider, for her advice and encouragement.</em></p> </blockquote> <hr/> <p class="center">Text copyright © 2005 by Carl Deuker</p> <p class="center">All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to<br/> Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.</p> <p class="center"><a href="http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com">www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com</a></p> <p class="center">The text of this book is set in 11-point Scala.</p> <p class="center"><em>Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data</em><br/> Deuker, Carl.<br/> Runner / by Carl Deuker.<br/> p. cm.<br/> Summary: Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been<br/> hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job,<br/> he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.<br/> ISBN 0-618-54298-1<br/> [1. Smuggling—Fiction. 2. Alcoholism—Fiction. 3. Single-parent families—Fiction. 4.Poverty—<br/> Fiction. 5. Terrorism—Fiction. 6. Puget Sound (Wash.)—Fiction.] I. Title.<br/> PZ7.D493Ru 2005 [Fic]—dc22 2004015781</p> <p class="center">ISBN-13: 978-0618-54298-7</p> <p class="center">Manufactured in the United States of America<br/> MP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1</p> <hr/> <blockquote> <p class="center">FOR ANNE AND MARIAN</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>