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2) 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.
3) 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.
4) Indigo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
84 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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.
5) The goats
Author
Publisher
Farrar/Straus/Giroux
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
6) Dark eyes
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked.
10) Nothing to lose
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
11) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
13) Smack
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
14) Chu Ju's house
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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.
15) Don't stop now
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Recent high school graduates Lil and Josh leave Illinois for Oregon seeking Lil's sort-of friend Penny, who faked her own kidnapping to escape problems at home and an abusive boyfriend, but Lil also wants to find out if she and Josh are meant to be more than friends.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
17) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Albert Morales's girlfriend Lily goes missing and he is the main suspect in her disappearance, he must deflect the worries of his angry parents, the suspicions of the police, and Lily's dangerous stepfather as Albert desperately tries to find her, with her sister as his only ally.
19) Jump
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into a life of total adventure--rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything's amazing. Not only are they climbing in awesomely beautiful national parks like Yosemite but they seem awesomely made for one another. P.K. is in heaven. And then the cops show up with an arrest warrant. And P.K. has to decide who to believe: this amazing guy whom she trusts with...
20) Tenderness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
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