Girl on the run

Description:

Seventeen-year-old Jessie Collins quits track and field after her father dies. Her dreams of a full scholarship shattered, she leave home to work as a summer camp counsellor to escape the small town gossip ... and her own secret guilt. She soon learns a good pair of legs can take a girl far, but it's facing the truth that makes all the difference.

subjects: Camp counselors,  Juvenile fiction,  Track and field,  Fiction,  Candadian fiction,  Moniteurs de colonies de vacances,  Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse,  Athlétisme,  American literature