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Bud, Not Buddy Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis,Alberto Jimenez Rioja,aa,Reginald André Jackson It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own i… OL115602W
Numbers Numbers Rachel Ward,Rachel Ward 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 … OL13761031W
2 Runaways 2 Runaways Jerry B. Jenkins When it seems everyone believes Daniel guilty of cheating, he runs away with his friend Yolanda leaving behind a frantic search. OL15081131W
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
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
Runaway (Airhead #3) Runaway (Airhead #3) Meg Cabot Sometimes what we ask for isn't what we really need and ends up being far from what we actually want. Emerson Watts is the right-hand girl to big star Nikki, but it seems that there aren't enough pos… OL15532426W
Chu Ju's house Chu Ju's house Gloria Whelan In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, wh… OL15835320W
Glitz Glitz Philana Marie Boles Sixteen-year-old orphan Ann Michelle runs away from her grandmother's house in Toledo, Ohio, with a new friend who is intent on seeking her own fame while the teenagers follow a hip-hop musician to N… OL16010454W
Will Sparrow's road Will Sparrow's road Karen Cushman In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see … OL16461715W
Wonder show Wonder show Hannah Rodgers Barnaby "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco'… OL16529190W
Dead Girl Moon Dead Girl Moon Charlie Price Grace, a scheming runaway, JJ, her fostercare sister, and Mick, the son of a petty thief, become entangled in the investigation of a teen prostitute's murder in a small, corrupt Montana town. OL16564064W
Down the rabbit hole Down the rabbit hole Susan Campbell Bartoletti It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aun… OL16682086W
Cookie Cookie Jacqueline Wilson Frequently berated for breaking his hyper-fussy house rules, as well as for her lack of looks, confidence and friends, Beauty lives in uneasy fear whenever Dad's home. Her pretty, sweet mum is equall… OL17731233W
See You Around, Sam! See You Around, Sam! Lois Lowry,Diane de Groat Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska. OL1846124W
Come home, Angus Come home, Angus Patrick Downes Angus woke up mad and knew today was not his day. His dachshund, Clive, walked too slowly. His canary, Pennycake, was too loud. And to top it off, his breakfast pancakes were way too skinny. OL20033037W
Guitar highway Rose Guitar highway Rose Brigid Lowry Two fifteen-year-olds, Rosie and Asher, upset over the various unhappy circumstances of their lives in the Australian city of Perth, decide to run away. OL2244246W
Death Wind Death Wind William Bell,Bell, William Allie is caught up in a tornado that threatens to destroy everything. (RL3.2) OL254121W
Gabby runs away Gabby runs away Michèle Dufresne Gabby the dog decides to take herself for a walk when Matt is busy playing basketball with his friends. OL27059062W
Indigo Indigo Alice Hoffman 13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew 7 inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plys Martha's lonely father with food and opinio… OL48946W
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