story summary.

Running Loose by Chris Cruther was not juts about Louie, but also the people who affected him. Louie and his best friend Carter spent their whole summer training for football season. Louie wanted to get the mile under 6 minutes. He also worked for his dad. When the football season came around they had to run the mile under 6. Louie really wanted to beat Boomer, who was one of the football stars. He was ahead of Boomer most of the way and then the last little bit Boomer pulled ahead. Carter won and Boomer got second. Even though he didn’t beat Boomer he was still proud of himself he finished third. Some kids on the team couldn’t even make it under 7 minutes. So they started their football season and then came the game with Washington. The coach told Boomer that if he got a chance to knock Washington out so he wouldn’t be able to play, and then they would win. Louie got very aggravated by this and during the game he yelled and sweared about how he thought it was wrong. He got kicked off the team after that.
During the season he met Becky. She asked him to go out for a coke and that’s when they knew they were meant to be. Even though he didn’t have football anymore, he still had Becky. They did so much together and were really close. Then, one day, Becky died. Louie didn’t know what to do. His whole life was turned upside down. From then on he had to face it and move on and he had the help from a lot of friends and family. He would have never made it without them.
In this book he goes through a lot of struggles and hard times and he has to try and overcome them.

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