The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
336 pages
This is an amazing story about finding your strength and courage to go on with life after all seems lost. Jessica is a runner, was truly born to it, until the day her track team bus was hit and her leg is amputated. She is promised a good recovery time, and a prosthetic leg, but Jessica is not interested, in fact feels that she wishes she had died herself in the accident. An unlikely friendship blooms with Rosa, a girl in a wheelchair herself due to cerebral palsy. This book had me tearing up at almost every chapter, and I found myself cheering for both Jessica and Rosa.
(from jacket cover)
What would you do if you lost the one thing that mattered most?
Sixteen-year-old Jessica is a runner. It's not just what she does, it's who she is. So when a tragic accident causes her to lose one of her legs, she is shattered-inside and out.
Though the doctors say she'll be able to walk with a prosthetic limb, recovery is slow and full of pitfalls. Jessica wonders if the girl who died in the accident didn't get the better end of the deal. But as she struggles to reclaim her life, Jessica gets to know Rosa-a girl with cerebral palsy whom she and her friends had always overlooked. Not only does Rosa come to Jessica's rescue in math, she also helps her reach for a future that is full of unexpected opportunities. And Jessica starts to wonder: Is it possible not only to walk again, but to run?
This is an amazing story about finding your strength and courage to go on with life after all seems lost. Jessica is a runner, was truly born to it, until the day her track team bus was hit and her leg is amputated. She is promised a good recovery time, and a prosthetic leg, but Jessica is not interested, in fact feels that she wishes she had died herself in the accident. An unlikely friendship blooms with Rosa, a girl in a wheelchair herself due to cerebral palsy. This book had me tearing up at almost every chapter, and I found myself cheering for both Jessica and Rosa.
(from jacket cover)
What would you do if you lost the one thing that mattered most?
Sixteen-year-old Jessica is a runner. It's not just what she does, it's who she is. So when a tragic accident causes her to lose one of her legs, she is shattered-inside and out.
Though the doctors say she'll be able to walk with a prosthetic limb, recovery is slow and full of pitfalls. Jessica wonders if the girl who died in the accident didn't get the better end of the deal. But as she struggles to reclaim her life, Jessica gets to know Rosa-a girl with cerebral palsy whom she and her friends had always overlooked. Not only does Rosa come to Jessica's rescue in math, she also helps her reach for a future that is full of unexpected opportunities. And Jessica starts to wonder: Is it possible not only to walk again, but to run?
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