r/Findabook

I’m looking for a young adult novel about a kid who runs (non competitively) to deal with the stress of having an alcoholic blue collar father. He gets bullied at school too. His father stops drinking for a while and things are going well. But at the end of the book, the kid is competing at a track event and the father shows up drunk. One of the bully antagonists is named Kinsella. Anyone?????

I remember this book from when I was younger, around 1990-2000. It was an anthology of different dragon stories interspersed with commentary and history, showing how different cultures and different authors have interpreted dragons throughout history. It had beautiful paintings throughout. Early chapters were things like Babylonian myths about sea serpents, Norse myths like the Jormungandr, and comparisons between traditional Asian dragons and medieval European dragons. Later chapters included excerpts from Anne McCaffrey's Pern series and Terry Pratchett's Discworld (along with an unforgettable portrait of Errol the Swamp Dragon).