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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
4) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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
Animal ark volume 46
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when a local girl runs away from home with a stolen beagle puppy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Zelda and Ivy volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice.
9) The maze
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
11) Grace : a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
12) The gypsy game
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
14) The Thief Lord
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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." Welcome to the magical world of Venice, Italy, where hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets.
15) Runaway
Author
Series
Fear Street. Original series volume 41
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2021, c1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hoping to start her life over at Shadyside, where nobody knows about her secret dark powers, runaway Felicia becomes terrified that she will lose control of herself again when someone discovers the truth about her.
17) The bridge home
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Told he must give up his favorite, now too-small, shoes, Alfie leaves home, but not before his mother persuades him to take all of the things he might need while he is gone.