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Cover for Champion Runner featuring a pencil illustration of a young boy in track gear running to the right and a portrait of a boy's face with a striped t-shirt on in the background. The background is white and the title is in cursive black for the word "Champion" and in a bright red serif font for the word "Runner".

Champion Runner

By Adwoa Badoe, Ashalley Mensah (Illustrator)

Champion Runner. Adwoa Badoe. Illustrated by Ashalley Mensah. Smartline Publishing and Worldreader, 2013. Published in Ghana [and the US]. ISBN 9789988600526. 17 p. (Ages 6-10). Picture book.

Abizibay is unable to attend school like the other kids; instead, he helps his father wash dishes in the school’s kitchen. In large part, Abizibay is a quiet kid who flies under the radar, but that all changes when the school holds a cross-country race. [gd]

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