track and field

While living in a housing project in Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner.

A training guide to running, jumping, and throwing.

High school track star Gil Marsh comes to terms with the loss of his close friend and teammate Enko and his own mortality while on a journey to find Enko's grave in this modern retelling of the ancient Sumerian tale of Gilgamesh.

Sixth-grader Julie has problems hiding the fact that she has been wearing make-up against her parents' wishes and trying to stay on the relay team at school with teammates who don't want her.

After he moves to Miami, seventeen-year-old David, who is an unusually fast runner, gets invited to join the Hurricanes' track team, but he soon finds himself mixed up in a mystery involving a toy gun, a Cuban American boy, and the gang called the Black Roses.

The Titans are hoping to add track to their athletic program, and track season is about to begin, but Sully, "a natural born runner, " is the only one who signs up, and if there is to be a track team, he needs to do some fast recruiting of other student athletes.

Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his life--until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change everything.