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Author
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are going to perform in a music competition.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she's drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
4) You can run
Author
Series
Robyn Hunter mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Robyn learns difficult truths about Trisha Hanover's life and finds herself in danger while investigating the disappearance of the teen who ran away from home.
5) Smoke
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.
9) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
10) Camp Wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
At 15, Wilf insists he's too old for summer camp. When his parents ship him off anyway, he plans to escape. Things unravel when his cabin mate forces Wilf to take him along and then a younger camper follows them. Soon, they all end up in a fight for their lives against the unforgiving river.
When Wilf's parents insist that he spend the summer at Camp Wild, he makes plans to escape.
11) Stick
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.
12) Lena
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2010, ©1999
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
13) Lucy the giant
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
14) Out of reach
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Mullet and her twin brother, Johnny, discover that someone has been spending time in the old barn Mary Beth escapes to when she needs time to herself.
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried. So she decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy. But when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets.
17) Charlie's run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping to stop his parents' impending separation and keep them from getting a divorce, eleven-year-old Charlie runs away from their house in the California countryside and finds a ride to the coast.
18) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
19) Dark eyes
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
20) Homestretch
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.