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62) Life before
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her--launching a public campaign that will expose their darkest secrets and change their family forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl. Don't try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board is written in Marley's hand, her mother Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation. Marley would never...
64) Finn: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Rescued from a murderous life with her mother, Chloe Wilder lives with her grandparents in the cocoon of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood. For the first time in her life, things are steady, safe, and stifling.
66) Paris echo
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.0American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their...
67) Winter and Night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Private investigator Bill Smith tracks a fifteen-year-old boy who has escaped police custody back to his home town in New Jersey, where he hopes to learn more about why the boy is on the run.
68) The goats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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.
69) Smack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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.
70) Charlie's run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Hoping to stop his parents' impending separation and keep them from getting a divorce, eleven-year-old Charlie runs away from their house in the California countryside and finds a ride to the coast.
72) Runner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Chicago in the dead of winter can be brutal, especially when you’re scouring the frigid streets for a missing girl. Fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus has run away from her foster home. Her biological mother, Leesa Evans, is a recovering addict who admits she failed Ramona often in the past. But now she’s clean. And she’s determined to make up for her mistakes—if Cass can only help her find her daughter...Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Palace rules, boarding school, and paparazzi have Jenna, princess of the newly unified kingdom of Scandia, longing for her former anonymity, but when she runs away she finds herself in grave danger--and in a position to prevent the outbreak of civil war.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"This is the story of sixteen-year-old Khadija, who flees her home in a stolen hot air balloon to escape life in an arranged marriage. Khadija loves the ancient tales of jinn and renegade princesses... but real life is closing in and her destiny as a ghadæan girl is marriage and boredom. When her father arranges a match, Khadija leaps at the chance of escape - a rogue hot air balloon fighting its ropes for the sky. Soon, Khadija is flying over the...
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Description
It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
78) If only
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While adjusting to his family's move from California to Utah, and while the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric meets Grace--his classmate and a runaway--and decides to hide her in the clubhouse in his backyard. Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children’s Services threatens to separate them. That’s when the three Gunnarsson kids decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. Not many would dare. But Jon, Korka, and Aron’s parents ran a survival school. Turns out their plan is full of holes. When food and equipment go missing and illness and...