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The Book Runner By Carl Deuker
In the book Runner By Carl Deuker The main character is Chance a 17 year old man. Chance is living in Seattle,Washington, on a boat named the Tiny Dancer. Chance accepts a job delivering packages for $200 a week. He has to choose if he wants to quit his job or keep the job even though it pays well. He decides to take the job and soon realizes that he is involved delivering bad things. Melissa a girl from Chances school becomes unsure. She goes to figure out what Chance is doing. New packages containing something different start to arrive. These are even more suspicious and Chance wants to know what they are. Melissa has been spying on Chance and learns that he is smuggling drugs. She threatens to report him to the police but she learns that

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