https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner Padlet by Connor Singsheim en-us 2017-10-26 17:36:14 UTC 2017-11-07 18:46:07 UTC hello@padlet.com http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VW9ZMF2PL.jpg sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200950039 2017-10-26 17:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200950039 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200950779 "It's some kind of plastic explosive isn't it?" (Deuker 189)]]> 2017-10-26 17:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200950779 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200950945 This was my favorite quote because it showed that Chance wanted to find out what he was smuggling and found out. He was talking with his dad when he showed him and his dad was in the military so he had past experience with things like this. Chance found out and did research on what it could have been. He was right with his guess which then made him think he was a huge criminal and should go to jail. Chance followed up with "Is that what it is?" after his dad had asked him how he knew about plastic explosives. ]]> 2017-10-26 17:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200950945 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200951093 Gr 7 Up –When his alcoholic Gulf War veteran father is fired from the first steady job he has held in years, Chance Taylor is understandably glum. He has no idea where they'll get the money to pay the moorage fees for the run-down sailboat they call home. Since his parents' divorce, Chance has tried to keep a low profile in school, and his only pleasure is running by himself along the Seattle waterfront. When a marina office employee offers to pay him $250 a week to pick up occasional packages at a tree along his running route, Chance is deeply suspicious of what they may contain but desperate enough to accept this opportunity to pay the bills. As this new job gradually becomes more dangerous and more clearly illegal, Chance's father is able to rise above his personal problems to help extricate his son. In a gripping climax complete with SWAT teams swarming throughout the marina as Coast Guard patrol boats close in on terrorists, Chance is afforded a final glimpse of the heroic man his father once was. Writing in a fast-paced, action-packed, but at the same time reflective style, Deuker uses fewer sports scenes than in his previous novels, and instead uses running as a hook to entice readers into a perceptive coming-of-age novel. A subplot involving Chance's friendship with a wealthy female classmate whose father was a close high school friend of Chance's father is nicely integrated into this timely, compelling story.–Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA --Ginny Gustin (Reviewed June 1 , 2005) (School Library Journal, vol 51, issue 6, p154)

]]> 2017-10-26 17:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200951093 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200951225 I agree with most parts of this review but there are some minor details I would change. Chance was originally paid $200 per week, and then $300 per week when he started to get the "special" packages. They could have explained the part with the SWAT team, and how he went to his friend Melissa and asked her dad for help. I believe the subplot that they mentioned was more than just a subplot. Chance and Melissa had a good connection and she helped Chance through his Senior year in high school. They even offered him a place to live after his boat was exploded and his father had died saving the town, or many other people throughout the state or country. They also could have added how he was questioned for about a week everyday about the smuggling and the packages and everything that happened.]]> 2017-10-26 17:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200951225 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200959805 2017-10-26 18:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200959805 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200962030 2017-10-26 18:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200962030 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200974761 Foreshadowing]]> 2017-10-26 18:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200974761 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200975148 Deuker mentioned Chance researching about plastic explosives in a short chapter. Chance then thought that the "Special packages" were explosives and he was helping a terrorist. He then met with the "fat guy" and asked him and the smugglers told him that it was gems and emeralds. Even though Deuker contradicted the explosives, he still hinted at it being a possibility.]]> 2017-10-26 18:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200975148 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200978468 Conflict]]> 2017-10-26 18:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200978468 sin07182 https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200978759 The conflict was that Chance couldn't tell anyone, anything, about his new job. Melissa was begging him to tell her because she caught him snooping through the rocks searching for a package, and then caught Chance lying to her that he wasn't. She got interested and started taking pictures from her home that overlooked the beach, where Chance picked up the packages. Chance still couldn't tell her anything. He eventually told her because Chance and his dad were in the crisis and had to get the explosives away from the terrorists.]]> 2017-10-26 18:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sin07182/Runner/wish/200978759