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Bee Frog Bee Frog Martin Waddell It seems that no one pays attention to little Bee, even while she pretends to be a very fierce dragon, so she hops away from home, but soon finds herself wondering if a dragon ever gets lonely. OL114177W
Ghost boy Ghost boy Iain Lawrence 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… OL116310W
Breakout Breakout Paul Fleischman A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time fo… OL13691W
George on His Own George on His Own Laurie Lawlor Addie's twelve-year-old brother, George, doesn't think anyone appreciates his musical talent, and when his father threatens to sell his trombone, George decides to run away from the family's prairie … OL145241W
Family honor Family honor Robert B. Parker PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy inv… OL14860109W
The Night Children The Night Children Kit Reed Squatters in the huge, midwestern MegaMall, fifteen-year-old Tick and his gang of lost, abandoned, or runaway children face off against a rival gang, and thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux, whose paren… OL14920118W
The pirates of Crocodile Swamp The pirates of Crocodile Swamp Jim Arnosky Kidnapped by their father, two boys escape into the mangrove swamps of Key Largo, Florida, where they learn to live on their own among the wildlife. OL14922779W
The Thief Queen's Daughter (The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme #2) The Thief Queen's Daughter (The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme #2) Elizabeth Haydon On his first day on the job as Royal Reporter of the land of Serendair, King Vandemere sends young Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme--known as Ven--on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City. … OL14934218W
Starfish Starfish James Crowley Lionel was very young when his parents died, so he can barely remember the old days, before he and his sister Beatrice came to the Chalk Bluff Boarding School on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. His… OL15025529W
Shadow of a doubt Shadow of a doubt S. L. Rottman As his sophomore year in high school begins, fifteen-year-old Shadow joins the forensics team, makes new friends, and struggles to cope with the return of his older brother, who ran away seven years … OL15059797W
Jessica Jessica Melody Carlson A rebellious Kansas farm girl leaves home after learning a shocking family secret. OL15109802W
Fouling Out Fouling Out Gregory Walters Craig and Tom have been friends since second grade, but that was five years ago and Craig is getting sick of Tom’s out-of-bounds behavior. When Craig begins to realize that he may have more potential… OL15173649W
Smack Smack Melvin Burgess 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. So… OL15398265W
Steffie can't come out to play Steffie can't come out to play Fran Arrick Fourteen-year-old Stephanie runs away from her dreary industrial Pennsylvania town to be a model in New York. Instead she meets an expensively-dressed man who puts her to work for him. OL15411660W
The Tanglewood terror The Tanglewood terror Kurtis Scaletta When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that… OL15520813W
Long story short Long story short Siobhán Parkinson 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… OL15537878W
Skate Skate Michael B. Harmon Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father. OL15839896W
Wonderstruck Wonderstruck Brian Selznick Expanding upon the genre-breaking form he invented in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick creates another awe-inspiring and multi-layered reading experience. Wo… OL15936008W
Family pose Family pose Dean Hughes Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel. OL16071148W
To all my fans, with love, from Sylvie To all my fans, with love, from Sylvie Ellen Conford Afraid of her foster father's advances, fifteen-year-old Sylvia flees and is aided by Walter and Vic who have different motives for helping her. OL16478807W
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