![]() ![]() ![]() Is he a good runner? Well, no, he’s terrible. With a new friend and a new team, Joseph finds himself off the sidelines and in the race (quite literally) for the first time. ![]() First, his Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school track team, and second, he meets Heather, a crazy-fast runner who isn’t going to be pushed around by Charlie Kastner or anybody else. So he spends most of his time avoiding school bully Charlie Kastner and hiding out in the Resource Room, a safe place for misfit kids like him.īut then, on the first day of seventh grade, two important things happen. With an overactive mind and phobias of everything from hard-boiled eggs to gargoyles, he struggles to understand his classes, let alone his fellow classmates. If middle school were a race, Joseph Friedman wouldn’t even be in last place-he’d be on the sidelines. ![]()
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