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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
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
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
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
The wild man The wild man Mark Barratt In Victorian England, Joe Rat has escaped the clutches of the criminal mastermind, Mother, and is trying to make an honest living in a better part of London, but when a rich philanthropist tracks dow… OL16484302W
The Princess Trap (Scandia #2) The Princess Trap (Scandia #2) Kirsten Boie The PLOT thickens! Already fed up with her restrictive new life as a PRINCESS, Jenna runs away (with a boy!) from boarding school, only to get caught up in a TRAP to overthrow her uncle, the king! … OL16574337W
Zip Zip Ellie Rollins "A girl discovers adventure at every highway turn. After Lyssa's mother dies, her kind but clueless new stepfather moves with her to the suburbs of Seattle in the hopes of making a fresh start. But … OL16645660W
The last rainmaker The last rainmaker Sherry Garland Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year-old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose … OL17179205W
Wild life Wild life Cynthia C. DeFelice When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing t… OL17831822W
Das Geheimnis des 12. Kontinents Das Geheimnis des 12. Kontinents Antonia Michaelis Karl Sonntag ist aus dem Waisenhaus geflohen und sucht nun mit den Winzigen, einem Seefahrervolk, den geheimnisvollen 12. Kontinent. Auf dieser Insel sind die Kinder der Seefahrer verschollen. Aber d… OL17881298W
The great good summer The great good summer Elizabeth Garton Scanlon Loomer, Texas, twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the progra… OL17882827W
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
Gone Missing Gone Missing Jean Ure Jean Ure returns with more warmth and wit in a brilliant book about what happens when two girls decide to run away from home.Fourteen-year-old Jade is fed up with fighting with her mum and step-dad, … OL1993079W
Transparent Transparent Natalie Whipple "Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a sma… OL19965698W
Pop goes the circus! Pop goes the circus! Kate Klise Bert the circus mouse has gone missing! The members of Sir Sidney s Circus figure he s nearby, sulking after an argument with his sister, Gert. Little do they know that he s been carried away by a ro… OL20005018W
The unexpected life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts The unexpected life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts Avi In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, a… OL20054281W
The chinquapin tree The chinquapin tree Jerry Kimble Holcomb Fearing they will be sent from a loving foster home back to their abusive mother, three children hide out in a secluded spot on Oregon's coast, trying to find food and shelter. OL2746791W
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