Running Scared

By Emma Carlson Berne, Jake Maddox, Katie Wood

Subjects: Fear of failure, Running races - Juvenile fiction, Running, Racing, Fear of failure - Juvenile fiction, Fear - Juvenile fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fear, Failure (Psychology), Running races, Running - Juvenile fiction, Best friends - Juvenile fiction, Failure (Psychology) - Juvenile fiction, Fear, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Racing - Fiction, Friendship - Juvenile fiction, Best friends, Friendship

Description: Olivia likes running - when she's doing it for fun, that is. But when her friend convinces her to join the track team, Olivia panics. She's convinced she'll come in last place, and people will make fun of her. So Olivia starts dropping out in the middle of her races. When her aunt realizes what she's doing, Olivia has to face her fears and quit running scared.