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What if I lost my leg in a bus accident and I would l be mad and upset? The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Jessica faces frustration with losing her leg and Jessica been through a lot of obstacles in her life in the past year. Jessica is mad because when she lost her leg in the bus accident, was really upset because now she can’t run for while? Jessica has a terrible bus accident and then after her bus accident then Jessica is rushed to the emergency room. The doctor checks to see anything if is broken in her body. the doctor says to Jessica, “We need to take x rays on your leg, please”.
Then the doctor takes Jessica to the x ray room and they were in the x ray on Jessica’s leg? Then it would take a while for the …show more content…
Fiona and Kyro and the rest of the track team did this fundraiser for Jessica and they did the car wash and the bake sale and they are going to raise up to twenty thousand dollars for the running leg so Jessica can join the track again. Fiona tells Jessica that we can get you the prosthetic leg just for running and Jessica was very excited about the fundraiser and went home and tell her mom and dad about the fundraiser. Then track team are going to wear their track uniform when they do the car wash and bake sale. They made a big banner and it saids HELP JESSICA RUN AGAIN. “So who wants to drive me to the car wash “?, Jessica said that I am going to the car wash today. But Jessica as to find her a ride to get at the car wash. Jessica asked everybody and her father will take you to the car wash . The author is encouraging the family to stay positive with Jessica’s and help her with everything and teach her how to get a round the house. “That is amazing”, The family is very proud of Jessica because she improving the new fake leg. The family is so proud of he and friends because they pitched in and helping jessica to get the running leg. If I lost my leg all my friends would pitch in help me run again. They will do the fundraiser and raise the

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