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3) Dreamland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Publisher
Houghton
Pub. Date
[1996]
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.
7) Gem & Dixie
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence. Even as Gem and Dixie have grown apart, they've always...
8) Dead drift
Author
Series
A Whitewater Thriller volume Book 1
Publisher
Papermoon Press
Pub. Date
©2022
Language
English
Description
"A dark thriller set in a small whitewater rafting town where a neophyte serial killer is just getting his feet wet..." -Publisher Marketing.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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.
11) Grace : a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
Author
Publisher
Treehouse Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Rose Madsen will do anything to keep from being married off to one of the men in her Fundamentalist Mormon (FLDS) community, even endure the continued beatings and abuse of her mother. But when her mentally handicapped baby sister is forced to strangle the bird she loves at the behest of the Prophet, Rose frees the bird and runs away. Adan Reyes will do anything to escape the abusive foster care system in Phoenix, even leaving his good friends and...
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When life at home becomes too difficult, eight-year-old Noah sets out to see the world and have an adventure, and in the forest he meets a toymaker who has a story and some advice to share.
14) Being Toffee
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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.
15) To take a Dare
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1984, c1982
Language
English
Description
A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.
18) Indigo
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oak Grove is a dry, dusty town haunted by memories of a past flood. Everyone dreads the water-except for two brothers, Trevor and Eli McGill. Nicknamed Trout and Eel for their darting quickness and the thin webbing between their fingers and toes, the boys dream of the farthest seas of a mysterious past they barely remember.
19) Joey runs away
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
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.
20) First Love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Axi Moore is a "good girl": she studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can confide in is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree...