About the Author
Claudia Mills is the acclaimed author of many books for children, including Kelsey Green, Reading Queen and Annika Riz, Math Whiz, the first two books in the Franklin School Friends series. She also teaches philosophy at the University of Denver. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. For more details visit claudiamillsauthor.com, or sign up for email updates here.
Also by
Claudia Mills
7 x 9 = Trouble!
Being Teddy Roosevelt
How Oliver Olson Changed the World
Fractions = Trouble!
The Franklin School Friends Series
Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
Annika Riz, Math Whiz
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
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Fun Running Facts
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Claudia Mills
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010
Text copyright © 2015 by Claudia Mills
Pictures copyright © 2015 by Rob Shepperson
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2015
eBook edition, May 2015
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Izzy Barr, running star / Claudia Mills; pictures by Rob Shepperson.
—First edition.
pages cm — (Franklin School friends)
“Margaret Ferguson books.”
Summary: “The third book in the Franklin School Friends series is a fast and funny story about sports, friendship, and sibling rivalries” —Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-374-33578-6 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-374-33579-3 (e-book)
[1. Schools—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction.] I. Shepperson, Rob, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.M63963Iz 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014023488
eISBN 9780374335793