Squeaky In Raymonds Run

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If you were the fastest runner in the city and everyone knew, would you listen to a teacher telling you to go slower and let someone else win? Or if your rival was talking trash to you and you just want to prove that you are better than them so they can’t be talking? Most would answer no. Me too. Squeaky in Raymonds Run is being asked this in the book. Nobody ever wants to lose. So you need to maybe think your way out of it. So overall in Raymonds Run you gotta be smart and fast because Squeaky is very fast and smart. She could get out of a situation and push through to win, and in this book that is exactly what you need to get by as Squeaky.

In Raymonds Run you gotta be fast. For Squeaky that is exactly what she does. She gets right to the

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