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Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
4) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
5) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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.
11) The wild kid
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
13) Ghost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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.
14) Long story short
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jono and his eight-year-old sister Julie run away when, soon after their grandmother's death, their alcoholic mother hits Julie, but when the police find them in Galway, Jono learns he is in big trouble.
15) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
16) Transparent
Author
Pub. Date
2013
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."--
17) American girls
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Anna runs away to Los Angeles where her half-sister takes her in, but after spending days on television and movie sets, she learns LA is not the glamorous escape she imagined.
18) Violet grenade
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When runaway Domino Ray agrees to go with Madam Karina to her girls home in West Texas, she finds herself being bullied, in a competition with other girls for Madam's approval, and falling for Cain, a boy who lives in the basement.
19) Wild life
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
20) Numbers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
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