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Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late 1963, with her family in financial straits, twelve-year-old Olivia runs away to Nashville to sell some of her songs.
6) Erased
Author
Series
Altered series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Anna searches for answers about her past while she evades the Branch with genetically altered boys Sam, Cas, and Nick"--
7) Runaway
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
8) Altered
Author
Series
Altered series volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Branch, along with the four teen boys the Branch had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
10) The Gypsy game
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be Gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.
11) Numbers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they'll die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
12) Right of way
Author
Series
Two way street volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in their separate voices, seventeen-year-old Peyton convinces eighteen-year-old Jace to drive her from a Florida wedding toward her Connecticut home with the intention of staying in North Carolina rather than face her parents' marital and financial problems, while both avoid the obvious attraction they have felt since they met at Christmas.
Author
Language
English
Description
In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "oddities," including a dwarf and a cat-faced girl, holding himself apart from the "monsters" and resolving to be on guard against further
...16) First love
Author
Language
English
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
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
637 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
20) Far far away!
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
When an unhappy young pig decides to run away, his mother helps him to see that everything he needs and wants is right there at home.
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