Taming the Star Runner Paperback – August 6, 2013

Here again is one of my favorite authors. "Taming The Star Runner" is a tale of the constant struggle of a young man trying to fit in.. somewhere, anywhere but who is truly a unique young man and different in a lot of ways from his peers. He pretty much tries not to let it show but he wants to be a writer. In high school you can imagine how this would go over. He has a lousy stepfather as seems oft to be the case, who does something incredibly insensitive to Travis and it lands Travis out in the mid west living with his Uncle on a farm away from the city and everything he knows and understands. Talk about a "fish out of water"! Here he meets Casey and her crazy horse, The Star Runner . Slowly a relationship between Travis, Casey, and his Uncle Ken begins to develop. Here is where Ms. Hinton excels. Weaving a story full of vibrant characters and their interactions into a deeply felt finality. The ending is extremely subtle and true to real life. Again, what I love about this author.

My 12 yr old loved the book

My son loves this book

Great movie

Great gift.

The item came as described on the ad. It wasn't a prime shipping item but it came quicker than the expected delivery date. Made a great Christmas stocking stuffer

My son loved this book

Purchased by school district. Didn't hear any complaints from the teacher (and I would), so assume all's good.

I read S.E.Hinton books when younger and when I saw her books are available on Kindle I decided to download and revisit some old favourites. I soon found out that the young adult stories I loved as a teenager are just as compelling for adults.This particular book revolves around Travis, a young writer with a volatile home life who moves to his Uncles in the Country where he finds that cool kids are defined in a different way to back home. The story focuses on his attempts to fit in and the friendships he builds as well as continuing the young writer storyline detailing his efforts to get published.All in all a very good coming of age story.

Adult characters frequent more in this book, giving another level of consideration to the young characters.Travis goes to live with his uncle on his father's side, to put as much distance between him and his step-dad as possible.Travis has written a book, fallen in love, spent time with a three year old and has had his old life smack him from behind. He learns from the bottom up to be his own person in a world that he would have never chosen for himself, but would never leave now for his old life.Taming the Star Runner is a book with awareness for others and liking the way it feels...sometimes.

Don't remember reading this one as a kid so thought I'd try it out - possibly losses something not being a teenager anymore ;) but it was fun reading it nonetheless :)

Arrived promptly. The recipient loved it.