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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion to an African-American woman at whose side she learns harsh lessons about segregation and family.
3) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest--the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and Grandpa...
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question. Lillian is faced with choosing between her dreams...
5) Forgive Me
Author
Language
English
Description
In a heart-pounding thriller from one of the most innovative voices in contemporary suspense, a woman unravels the shocking truth about her parents, her past, and a life built upon an unthinkable lie.
At DeRose & Associates Private Investigators in Virginia, Angie DeRose strives to find and rescue endangered runaways—work that stands in stark contrast to her own safe, idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother's sudden death, Angie...
At DeRose & Associates Private Investigators in Virginia, Angie DeRose strives to find and rescue endangered runaways—work that stands in stark contrast to her own safe, idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother's sudden death, Angie...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
International bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers pulse-pounding suspense that puts him among the masters of the genre. A Tap on the Window finds private investigator Cal Weaver making an ill-advised decision to pick up a young female hitchhiker who reminds him of his dead son. But something is off about the girl, and Cal is soon drawn into a host of nightmarish secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alberto, the town's coffin maker, and Tito, a runaway boy, both lonely after suffering tragic losses, learn the power of friendship as they try to escape the shadows of their pasts.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
11) Mad maudlin
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
—and Quite Deadly . . .
Eric Banyon, better known as Bedlam's Bard, is finally about to graduate from Julliard and enter the Real World and so, with the help of a psychiatrist who specializes in the problems of magicians, he's finally coming to terms with his past. But a spur-of-the-moment trip home to Boston to visit his parents brings him more trouble than even Eric thought possible.
Meanwhile, his Bardic
...12) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
[Widescreen].
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In "Snow," Jessica flees to London when her jealous stepmother turns murderous; and in "Beauty Sleep," Aurore encounters Oswald, whom she has replaced as the king's heir, a year before a magical curse will send her into a century-long sleep.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A preadolescent runaway describes the violence and trauma that marked her early life before the unexpected kindness of a teacher helped her to get off the streets and pursue a master's degree, tracing her subsequent dedication to helping other at-risk youth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
17) Loving Libby
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Vanderhoff runs away from her privileged home and finds refuge in the Idaho wilderness as Libby Blue, but trouble follows when her tyrannical father sends Remington Walker to locate her and bring her home to be forced into marriage with a rich viscount.
18) Big Bad Bunny
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
[1st ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Baby Boo-Boo, a mouse dressed in a bunny suit, becomes lost in the forest, his mother follows the sound of his cries to locate him.
19) Finn: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Some 120 years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn's father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women's underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Clinch's masterly debut draws from the nation's literary heritage to create this completely original story. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
20) Little birds
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles. But in the big city, Lily and Alison quickly fall into the boys' world of scams and petty crime. Lily is determined to stay and make it work, while Alison is overwhelmed and eager to return home. When an idea is hatched to use Lily as bait for men with money to steal, things quickly escalate to a life-changing moment....
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