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61) 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.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Loomer, Texas, twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
63) 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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to "help" them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
66) 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
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Squatters in the huge, midwestern MegaMall, fifteen-year-old Tick and his gang of lost, abandoned, or runaway children face off against a rival gang, and thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux, whose parents and aunt have mysteriously disappeared, gets caught between.
68) Nobody but us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, eighteen-year-old Will who has aged out of foster care, and fifteen-year-old Zoe whose father beats her, set out for Las Vegas together, but their escape may prove more dangerous than what they left behind.
Author
Language
English
Description
National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine presents unique novel about a sickly boy's epic journey through England and Scotland at the height of Medieval times.Adrian is small for his age, even for a twelve year old. It doesn't help that he's an albino, which makes those he meets wonder if he's an angel or a devil. His father is a bowyer, and all Adrian wants to do is become apprenticed and go off to war as a long bowman. But that's not what...
Author
Series
Doll people volume 3
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When everyone in her large family seems too busy around the farm to pay any attention to her, a young girl decides to run away to find someone who will watch her do her new trick.
72) A summer secret
Author
Series
Mysteries of Middlefield series volume 1
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Mullet and her twin brother, Johnny, discover that someone has been spending time in the old barn Mary Beth escapes to when she needs time to herself.
73) Transparent
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a small town where they're determined to start a normal life."--
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.
75) 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.
76) Girlwood
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Polly Greene's older sister Bree runs away from home, Polly and her eccentric grandmother believe she is hiding in the neighboring Idaho woods, and when they discover a mysterious, hidden grove of larches, Polly and her friends build a shelter for Bree and try to save the grove from developers.
77) Homestretch
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1863 northwestern Georgia, an unlikely alliance forms between ten-year-old New York drummer boy Jeremy, fourteen-year-old Confederate Charlie, and runaway slave Dulcie as they learn truths about the Civil War, slavery, and freedom.
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