This excellent book, about a high school track runner, has inspired me to make myself into a better track runner. It was just that good! I encourage anyone who enjoys track or running to read this book. It gives you an insight into the mind of a runner. This book is full of competition and the many hardships this runner had to face. I'm sure anyone who reads Run For Your Life will enjoy it.

Poor Chloris has a lot on her plate. A favored, bratty younger sister, a father who committed suicide some three years earlier and a mother who shouldn't happen to a mongrel dog. Chloris' father squandered all the insurance money that she was supposed to inherit, but leaves bratty Jenny well off. What a bummer. Chloris has a vain, spoiled, immature mother who craves the attention of men. After remarrying a man named Fidel Mancha, Chloris rebuffs Mancha and refuses to let him adopt her or her favored brat of a sister.

I hated the way that disgusting mother would go on slapping sprees to Chloris. I also hated the way she would talk against Chloris to goody two shoes Jenny and refer to Chloris as "your sister." That mother belonged in the wastebasket. This book is a real downer. Skip it.

This book is a real disappointment. Chloris, the title character is a then 11-year-old coping with the suicide of her father some three years earlier, a selfish mother who isn't even nice to her and her pampered princess of a sister, Jenny. Jenny narrates all the Chloris stories and the favoritism the mother showers on Jenny is sickening. Poor Chloris had to contend with the fact that her father squandered her inheritance, leaving her nothing while spoiled little Jenny gets it all. The stupid mother slaps Chloris and treats her like dirt whenever she is angry at her which is frequent. She never seems to relate postively to Chloris and appears to be conditioned to disapprove of anything connected with her. A must miss.

Your heart goes out to Chloris, whose father committed suicide some eight years earlier when she was eight. He squandered her inheritance, so unfortunately her bratty younger sister gets the lion's share. Chloris has a mother who shouldn't happen to a buzzard and her life is miserable largely because of these two wretches.

Chloris could never accept her step father, Fidel Mancha. In this installment of the "Chloris" trilogy, her mother has divorced Fidel and she and her bratty sister Jenny are living with this shrew. I could not stand their mother. She would go on slapping sprees and hurt Chloris. I wish JENNY had been slapped! She is such a phony. To add insult to injury, that nasty woman would snidely refer to Chloris as "she" and "your sister" to Jenny. She was never nice to Chloris and in one memorable section of the book, she calls Chloris a "mean, rotten child" who does not deserve any tears or sympathy because she took off for a fun weekend with friends sans permission. I hated Jenny and the way she attacked Chloris and cut her lip upon the latter's return home. That stupid mother put everything before Chloris -- her love life, her friends, Jenny and even inanimate objects. I would never wish a mother like that or that disgusting sister Jenny on anyone. This book belongs in the wastebasket.

Chloris has a mother nobody would want. That poor girl lost her father to suicide when she was eight and has a spoiled, goody-goody of a sister and a mother who treats her like dirt. I hate the way that stupid woman would slap Chloris and talk against her to Princess Jenny. I thought it was disgusting the way that foolish woman told Jenny that "Chloris was a mean, rotten child" when Chloris took off on a ski trip with some friends without permission. I didn't like Jenny from the get go, but my dislike for her increased when she attacked Chloris when Chloris returned from the trip. The stupid mother put everything and everyone before Chloris "her friends," "her house," and of course, stupid, spoiled Jenny. Poor Chloris had nothing to build esteem on. No inheritance, a father who committed suicide, a disgusting sister and mother -- even rats take better care of their own. This book is a real let down.