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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sid and Bolter, who are robots at the local car factory, are retired to the storeroom, they decide to run away using their car-making talents in new and unusual ways.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1983
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and good.
6) Out of reach
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
Author
Series
The Veritas project volume 2
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elijah and his sister Elisha go undercover to investigate a mysterious school that is sheltering runaway teenagers for a sinister purpose.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
10) First love
Author
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
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep & When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
12) The Pear affair
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, affectionately known as Pear.
13) My week with him
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career... After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince...
Author
Series
Requiem dark volume 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits.
15) The Thief Lord
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
349 p. : ill, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
16) The bridge home
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scholarly and soft-spoken, seventeen-year-old Thea escapes from her mother's pirate ship and into the arms of a charming sailor whose betrayal forces Thea to reconsider her mother's lessons about surviving in a man's world.
Author
Series
Blue Sky Hill volume 2
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 354 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
20) Orphan eleven
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
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