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221) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seven teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.
222) Long Story Short
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jono and his eight-year-old sister Julie run away when, soon after their grandmother's death, their alcoholic mother hits Julie, but when the police find them in Galway, Jono learns he is in big trouble.
223) The Hunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
224) Kiss kill vanish
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"A teenage girl flees her opulent life in Miami when she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder that was ordered by her father"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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 program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
July 2015.
Description
"After escaping from a cult, Lexi found refuge with her sisters on the farm that more than sustained her body--it nurtured her soul as well. But she never forgot the terror she left behind or the always present fear that the cult would find her again, and claim her. Then her nightmare came true. Lexi was discovered and threatened--only to be suddenly saved by a stranger. He is Gavriil Prakenskii, and he's awestruck by the woman he's rescued. She is...
229) Leap of Faith
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Faith shepherds her neglectful, drug-addicted mother through her pregnancy and then kidnaps the baby, taking on the responsibility of being her baby sister's parent while hiding from the authorities.
231) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.
232) Billion dollar girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
After thirteen-year-old River Ryland is discovered to live mostly alone and a visit from Social Services goes horribly wrong, River runs away and a case of mistaken identity gives her the chance to life a live she never imagined.
233) Num8ers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
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 day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
234) The Beggars' Ride
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has his own secret reason for distrusting society.
235) La tormenta
Author
Pub. Date
[2009], c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Allie, failing school and fearing she is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, decides there is no way she can face her always fighting parents and decides to run away, but she gets a different perspective on her life and future when a tornado hits, destroying her home and injuring her mother.
236) Hide with me
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Cade, seventeen, yearns to leave the border town of Tanner, Texas, and when a mysterious girl appears, broken and bleeding, on his family farm the two begin to plan their escape, unaware that a cartel boss wants the girl back.
238) Solace of the road
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
239) Harvey Girl
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1919, fourteen-year-old Clara Fern Massie runs away from her family's farm in Missouri to earn a living and find adventure as a Harvey Girl, one of the waitresses who worked at Harvey House restaurants along the railroads in the Southwest United States.
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Brayden Bunny doesn't feel like picking up his toys or washing his whiskers. It'd be so much easier to live with his friends, so Brayden decides to give it a try. But every new home he visits come with a new problem: Missy Mouse's house is too messy, Benny Badger's house smells a little funny, and Fipsi Squirrel's house is too high. At last Brayden Bunny visits his Cousin Pepi. Everything there is perfect and easy, but it doesn't take long for Brayden...