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21) 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....
22) A Hundred Horses
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of A Dog Called Homeless, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award, comes another gentle novel with a touch of magic about the power of friendship and the truth of belonging. Nell isn't happy about spending her vacation on a farm, but when she meets a half-wild and mysterious girl named Angel, the two girls are tied in an adventure that may help Nell discover something special about herself-and the most special of a hundred horses....
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.
24) The Thief Lord
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt only the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they find protection from a gang of Venetian street children and their leader, the Thief Lord.
25) James: a novel
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, [this book] is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as ... children reject ... parents for their emotional and moral failures--in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hoping to strike it rich, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush"--
Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush, desperate to get away from their drunkard of a father. Onboard a ship, Jasper overhears a rumor about One-Eyed Riley, an old coot who's long since gone, but is said to have left clues to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.
Author
Series
Lost journals of Ven Polypheme volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Young Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City, a former penal colony in the land of Serendair, where he and his friends face kidnapping and even worse dangers from the ruthless Thief Queen, who is trying to reclaim her runaway daughter.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 46
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when a local girl runs away from home with a stolen beagle puppy.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
36) Half a heart
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At nine years of age, Logan Weber knows the routine. Keep quiet, make the food last, and don't ever cause trouble. He'll do what it takes to evade the rages of his troubled, violent father. Even though he's only a child, Logan already knows too much--has seen too much. So when the opportunity presents itself, Logan runs. He has no idea where his journey will lead, or that the grandmother he's been told is dead is desperately searching for him. Alone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Edgar nominee Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, and her book The Unseen was named as both a School Library Journal Best Book and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner. In William S. and the Great Escape, Snyder pens a middle-grade adventure sure to be ranked with her very best.
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