Alan Brown's Sports Literacy Blog

Key:

^ Nonfiction

*Grade levels are based on reviews from sources such as School Library Journal, Booklist, etc. They do not necessarily represent Alan’s and Abby’s views on grade level appropriateness.

Running/Track

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti (Grades 9-12)

A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon (Grades 9-12)

Again to Carthage by John L. Parker

And Other Mistakes by Erika Turner (Grades 10-12)

^ Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally (Grades 9-12)

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson (Grades 9-12)

 Darius and Twig by Walter Dean Myers (Grades 8-12)

David Inside Out by Lee Bantle (Grades 9-12)

^ Hurdles in the Dark: My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph by Elvira K. Gonzalez (Grades 10-12)

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (Grades 6-9)

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Grades 6-10)

   None of the Above by I.W. Gregario (Grades 9-12)

 Not if I See You First by Eric Lindstrom (Grades 9-12)

 On the Road to Find Out by Rachel Toor (Grades 7-10)

Once a Runner by John L. Parker

  Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard (Grades 6-9)

 ^ Run with Me by Sanay Richards-Ross

Runner by Carl Deuker (Grades 7-10)

^ Running for My Life  by Lopez Lomong and Mark Tabb (Video Companion)

Running on Eggs by Anna Levine (Grades 4-7)

  Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron

 ^ Silent Gesture by Tommie Smith and David Steel

Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan (Grades 7-9)

Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach (Grades 7-12)

 ^ The Fastest Man Alive by Usain Bolt and Shaun Custis

 The Illegal by Lawrence Hill

The Long Run by James Acker (Grades 7-9)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth (Grades 9-12)

The Runner by Cynthia Voigt (Grades 6-10)

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen (Grades 7-10)

Track Series by Jason Reynolds (Grades 5-9)

 ^ Triumph by Jeremy Schaap

^ Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Grades 9-12)

  ^ What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

^ What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan 

  What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson (Grades 9-12)