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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1976, c1975
Description
Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.......
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys… five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton’s tavern, Daniel Devaney’s job as a child advocate forces him to investigate…and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their...
3) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Author
Series
The veritas project volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Elijah and his sister Elisha go undercover to investigate a mysterious school that is sheltering runaway teenagers for a sinister purpose.
Author
Description
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
Six months ago, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant-- was he drunk when...
11) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
12) Dreamland
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
15) Being Toffee
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
16) Indigo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
17) Addie runs away
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Not wishing to be sent away to Camp Putt, Addie is determined to run away, unless her friend Max can convince her to change her mind.
Author
Series
Apple Valley mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The children at Apple Valley Orphanage befriend two Mexican children who have run away from a cruel migrant labor boss.
19) Oh Yeah, Audrey!
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Months after the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Gemma Beasley and friends she met through her Tumblr page meet in New York City to celebrate the life and style of Audrey Hepburn and her famous character, Holly Go Lightly.
20) Chu Ju's house
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
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