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Pet Rat And Running Changes Teenager's Life

On The Road To Find Out, a novel by Rachel Toor

Rachel Toor talks about and reads from her YA novel On The Road To Find Out.

About The Book:

On New Year’s Day, Alice Davis goes for a run. Her first ever. It’s painful and embarrassing, but so was getting denied by the only college she cares about. Alice knows she has to stop sitting around and complaining to her best friend, Jenni, and her pet rat, Walter, about what a loser she is. But what she doesn’t know is that by taking those first steps out the door, she is setting off down a road filled with new challenges—including vicious side stitches, chafing in unmentionable places, and race-paced first love—and strengthening herself to endure when the going suddenly gets tougher than she ever imagined.

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About The Author:

Rachel Toor
Rachel Toor with her running partner, Helen

Rachel Toor teaches writing at Eastern Washington University, is a columnist for the "Chronicle of Higher Education," and a senior writer for "Running Times." She is the author of The Pig and I: How I Learned to Love Men (Almost) as Much as I Love My Pets and Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process. A graduate of Yale University, she received an MFA from the University of Montana and currently lives in Spokane.

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