10% off all books and free delivery over £50
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Born to Run

View All Editions (4)

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review Read An Extract

LoveReading4Kids Says

LoveReading4Kids Says

This is a novel that will really pull on the heartstrings and one that will stick in your mind long after you’ve finished it. But rest assured, anyone who has a love of animals will warm to this story of a greyhound and its many owners.

When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he can't bear to hand them all over to the RSPCA. He pleads with his parents: couldn't he just keep one of them? But nothing will convince them and Patrick cries himself to sleep -- only to be woken by a greyhound puppy licking his face! Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate, and that's what he becomes.

Patrick's favourite thing is to watch Best Mate running at full stretch on the heath, a speeding bullet, a cheetah-dog. Until one day Best Mate is kidnapped by a greyhound trainer, and begins a new life as a champion race dog. Suzie, the greyhound trainer's step-daughter, loves Best Mate on first sight and gives him a new name, Bright Eyes. But what will happen when he can't run any more?

LoveReading4Kids

Recommended Children's eBooks

Find This Book In

Suitable For:
Other Genres:
Recommendations:

About

Press Reviews

Author

You Might Also Like...

7+ readers

Grimwood: Rock the Vote!

Nadia Shireen

Hardback

Pre-order. 31st July 2025

£11.69 £12.99

7+ readers

Dragon Riders of Roar

Jenny McLachlan

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

7+ readers

Goliath The Rescue Horse

Pippa Funnell

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

7+ readers

The Crumble Lady

Lorraine Bowen

Paperback

Pre-order. 1st May 2024

£7.19 £7.99

7+ readers

Last

Nicola Davies

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99