209 pages
English language
Published 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf Books for Young Readers.
Runner
In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.
Subjects
- Running -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Organized crime -- Fiction
- Running -- Juvenile fiction
- Poverty -- Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
- Organized crime -- Juvenile fiction
- Richmond (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 1901-1922 -- Fiction
- Richmond (Vic.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction