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41) Nothing to lose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 4
Shaw Colter volume 4
Thorndike Press large print core
A Colter Shaw novel volume 4
Shaw Colter volume 4
Thorndike Press large print core
A Colter Shaw novel volume 4
Formats
Description
Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he's an expert at tracking missing persons--even those who don't wish to be found--Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection. The reason for Allison's panicked flight...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
When she discovers long-lost relatives that have abilities like her own, Trix McCabe might have finally found somewhere she belongs, but when her past resurfaces, she'll have to decide whether to take a chance on this new life or keep running.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"In the underground city of Caverna, the world's most skilled craftspeople toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare-- wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as he slits your throat. On the surface, the people of Caverna seem ordinary, except for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths...
45) Sweet Charity
Author
Series
Horseshoe trilogies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Faith and Hope gone to new homes, Josie is left with Hope's daughter Charity. in this book, one of the girls loved the horse and wanted to buy her, but was devastated when her parents they couldn't afford her, she runs away taking Charity with her. Josie has loved Charity ever since the horse was born, now it's time to find a new home for her.
46) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a monetary windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington in order to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
48) Sons of Liberty
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
No one knows the American Revolution better than Rock Kindle. Rock takes pride in his patriotic forefathers, and his belief that he himself could brave any combat helps him through the bad times, when Rock's father wages small wars on the rest of the family.
49) Let's get lost
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
51) Ghost boy
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
Formats
Description
Growing Up! Young David Copperfield, orphaned as a child, abandoned by a vicious stepfather, must learn to make a life for himself. In Charles Dickens' brilliant novel, we learn of David's early harsh years... his adoption by his eccentric aunt... his betrayal by a childhood friend... the pressures of starting a career... immature, young love... and finally career success and personal happiness. Charles Dickens' sensitive portrayal of David's early...
53) Joey runs away
Author
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.
54) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 46
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when a local girl runs away from home with a stolen beagle puppy.
Author
Series
Requiem dark volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits.
Author
Series
Blue Sky Hill volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.
59) The stray
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan ... when he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt in New York City, but as soon as he arrives in Penn Station, the bustling city makes him wonder if he's overestimated what he can do"--Amazon.com.