Run

Run

Leonard Smithson and his Rossdale High School relay teammates are ready for a huge senior season. After second place finishes at State two-years in a row, the Rossdale sprint relay members are ready to win it all in their final season. No one is going to get in their way. … Except themselves.The relay teammates like to have fun. Sometimes too much. This time, they go too far while messing around with Alex Summers, one of the Special Olympics athletes who share the track for practice twice a week. They try to run away from Alex but he catches them; So does their coach, who punishes them with running. Lots of running.What happens next, though, is a surprise for the relay members. Alex wants a chance to race for a spot on the team. He loves to run and he loves to run fast. Leonard knew Alex was fast, but no one really knew how fast until the race off.Will Leonard and his teammates be accepting to their new teammate? Will they even stick around to give him a chance? To them, at least to start, Alex is just another obstacle in their way of a State title.In fact, they learn, he is not that different from them and he may just be the key to getting a State Championship.* 50 cents of every book will go to the Special Olympics JASON STACY is an educator and coach of almost two decades with a passion for teaching, writing and sports. In his newly started career as an author, he hopes to blend all three as he tells stories much like the books he grew up reading. After moving around during his childhood, Stacy attended the University of Missouri in Columbia to study journalism and later settled in the midwest. He has taught journalism and sponsored school publications while also coaching multiple sports for the last 17 years. RUN is his first novel.