Run for Your Life (children's novel)

Run For Your Life  

Cover of Heinemann hardback edition
Author(s) Lionel Davidson
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Children’s novel
Publisher Jonathan Cape
Publication date 1966
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 153 pp
ISBN 0435122088

Run For Your Life (known in the USA as Soldier and Me) is a children's adventure novel by Lionel Davidson, first published in 1966.

Plot introduction

An English boy, Woolcott, and his friend Szolda (whom he calls Soldier) are on the run because Szolda has overheard two men plotting a murder.

Filmed as a TV series in 1974 using the US title Soldier and Me starring Gerry Sundquist as Woolcott and Richard Willis as Szolda. 9 30 minute episodes made by Granada Television.