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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a synthetic hormone in beef kills fifty million American women, seventeen-year-old Avie struggles for a normal life in a world where teenage girls are a valuable commodity, but when her father contracts her to marry a rich, older man, Avie decides to run away with her childhood friend and revolutionary, Yates.
42) 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.
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the baby who lives at the top of a hill escapes in his carriage, he encounters Hilda the pig, who is always where she expects herself to be, and the beginnings of an unlikely friendship form.
46) Nothing to lose
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
47) Smack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
48) Family pose
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel.
50) I'm not missing
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sick of the pressures of pet life, one dog escapes to fulfill his true Lone Wolf destiny, but then he sees his owner with a new dog and feels unexpectedly jealous."--
51) 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.
52) 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.
53) Wild life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
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.
55) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers long-lost relatives that have abilities like her own, Trix McCabe might have finally found somewhere she belongs, but when her past resurfaces, she'll have to decide whether to take a chance on this new life or keep running.
58) Runaways
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of runaway youths, situations they are trying to escape, and programs that try to help them solve their problems.
59) Erased
Author
Series
Altered series volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna searches for answers about her past while she evades the Branch with genetically altered boys Sam, Cas, and Nick.
60) The barn burner
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1933 while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family which helps him make an important decision.