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61) 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.
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"Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat on a mission to reclaim what's rightfully hers, even if it means making others pay for what she lost. When fifteen-year-old Allie's parents are jailed for tax fraud, she's sent to a group home. But when her...
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...
65) 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.
67) Paris echo
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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...
68) Winter and Night
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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.
69) 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.
70) Crossroads
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.
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No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house to plan her next move. She never dreamed her new chapter would involve befriending Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death. While Sarah's grandmother scrambles to get custody, Faith is charged with spiriting the girl away on a journey that will restore her hope: Sarah implores...
72) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from an Arizona prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer.
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.
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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...
77) Charlie's run
Author
Pub. Date
2002
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.
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
James is pretty sure he's a psychopath, emotionally detached, cold and disdainful, and he's decided he's ready to graduate from killing animals. He thinks it might be interesting to kill something bigger, a human, and he's got the perfect person in mind. Alyssa is new in school and upon seeing James she thinks she may have found a soulmate.
80) If only
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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?