Heartbeat by Sharon Creech

Heartbeat is about Annie, a girl who loves to run.  Her best friend is trying to get her to try out for the girls running team.  Annie tells her best friend that she only likes  running by herself in her bare feet.  Her best friend, Max, tells her how he  is trying out for the boys running team.  Max also likes running barefoot.  So Max is saving up for a pair of running shoes.  Annie is saving up for drawing paper and charcoal pencils.  In Annie's art class they have to draw the same apple for one hundred days.  Some people think the project is boring but Annie thinks she could draw the apple from the bottom and the top.  On top of all that her mother is having a baby!  This book is a great family story filled with adventure.
                                                                             

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