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1) Gem & Dixie
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence. Even as Gem and Dixie have grown apart, they've always...
3) Dreamland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
4) Finn's going
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old English boy decides to run away after the sadness at home becomes unbearable following the death of his twin brother.
6) Runaways
Author
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When six young friends discover that their parents are all secretly super-powered villians, they run away together and find strength in one another to overcome their evil legacy.
8) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) The Thief Lord
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
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."
14) The hunted
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
15) Broken blossoms
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg's beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live...
Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg's beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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, adventurers, and treachery.
18) Smoke: Bk 2
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.
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