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Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 4
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A misbehaving mouse, under the employ of Sir Sidney's Circus, finds adventure when a balloon carries him away and he meets a young runaway.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Great Aunt Beauregard announces her intentions to bring budding engineer John into the family business of coffin manufacturing for the rest of his natural life--and, worse, to teach his sister Page to embalm--John decides enough is enough, and the two of them head out on the lam, maybe joining the circus"--
83) Split ends
Author
Series
Divine and friends volume 6
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Preferring homelessness to living with her irresponsible mother, teenage Kylie runs away, takes a job at a hair salon, and learns to trust God.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-olds Petra, who escaped her abusive father's Amsterdam house in 1663, and Bram, a half-Javanese/half-Dutch boy, relate their adventures at sea after Petra stows away and Bram, son of the ship's carpenter, helps her disguise herself as a boy.
85) Ghost flower
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eve is a runaway with a shadowy past. Bain and Bridgett approach her as Eve is working at the Starbucks on the outskirts of Tucson. They want Eve, who looks exactly like their cousin Aurora, who disappeared three years ago, to stage Aurora's dramatic return, fool the family, and get the money Aurora is due to inherit and split it with Bain and Bridgett. Eve slips easily into the role of Aurora until the ghost of Eve's friend Liza, who died on the...
86) Finding Paris
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sisters Leo and Paris Hollings have only ever had each other to rely on. They can't trust their mother, who hops from city to city and from guy to guy, or their gambler stepfather, who's moved them all to Las Vegas. When Paris disappears from the Heartbreak Hotel Diner, where moments before they had been talking with physics student Max Sullivan, Leo finds a cryptic note. Leo reluctantly accepts Max's offer of help, and the two find themselves following...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early part of the 1900s, Beatrice and Lionel, two Blackfeet Indian children, escape from the Chalk Bluff Indian Boarding School in Montana to find their grandfather, and must elude their pursuers and make a life for themselves in the wilderness.
90) 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...
91) Second fiddle
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
5 CDs (approximately 71 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are going to perform in a music competition.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned balmy. But there's darkness in the madness, and when Uncle Ernie's obsession takes an unexpectedly cruel turn, Stan has no choice but to leave. As he journeys away from the life he's always known, he mingles with a carnival full of eccentric characters and meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims...
93) The honest truth
Author
Language
English
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
11 CDs (12 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
96) The convicts
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (6 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force thirteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
97) 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.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 3 to 4
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The circus goes to sea: Many surprises are in store when Miss Flora Endora Eliza LaBuena LaPasta invites Sir Sidney's Circus to travel and perform aboard her elegant ship, the SS Spaghetti.
Pop goes the circus!: A misbehaving mouse, under the employ of Sir Sidney's Circus, finds adventure when a balloon carries him away and he meets a young runaway.
99) Chester
Author
Publisher
Minedition
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Chester, a black-and-white dog with a serious mein, loves his family, but they seem to have forgotten about him. Unhappy, he puts his doghouse on his head and leaves. But for where? In the forest, the birds think he's a wolf and force him out. The city is too crowded and expensive. When he's scooped up by a wealthy woman, Chester finds himself in the lap of luxury. Toys! Treats! But after his owner dreses him in baby clothes, Chester takes off. "Now...
100) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Language
English
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.
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