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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.
2) 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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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.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) The Replaced
Author
Series
The Taking (Kimberly Derting) volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kyra hasn't been the same since she returned from her mysterious five-year disappearance. Now, on the run from the NSA, Kyra is forced to hide out with others who, like her, have been Returned. Yet she is determined to find Tyler, the boy she loves who was also abducted.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother, how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...