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1) Gem & Dixie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Peter runs away from his foster home ... and right into danger Peter is a genius with dirt bikes. He can take them apart, fix them up, and race them like a champ. But his skill with a bike can take him only so far - and when he runs away from his foster home, he realizes he's in way over his head. He gets mixed up with two dangerous strangers and soon finds himself neck and neck with trouble on and off the racetrack.
3) 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.
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English
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Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
Six months ago, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant-- was he drunk when...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
9) The runaways
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
13) Ghost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
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 sense of who he is.
14) Bud, not Buddy
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.
16) Daniel's desire
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English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys… five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton’s tavern, Daniel Devaney’s job as a child advocate forces him to investigate…and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their...
17) Endangered
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"New York Times-bestselling writer C.J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more-Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway-alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force...
19) The daughter
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English
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Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...
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