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21) Charlie's run
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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.
22) We were here
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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.
23) The Thief Lord
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
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.
24) The Convicts
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
25) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seven teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.
26) The goats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
Author
Series
The Veritas project volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Elijah and Elisha, teenage twins who, along with their parents, have been recruited by the president to learn the truth behind strange mysteries, crimes, and unusual occurrences in the news, face a rigorous test of faith when their job takes them into a world of twisted reality.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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...
33) Man made Boy
Author
Series
Man made Boy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Tired of being sheltered from humans, seventeen-year-old Boy, son of Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of Frankenstein, runs away from home and embarks on a wild road trip that takes him across the country and deep into the heart of America.
34) Lucy the giant
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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.
36) We were here
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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.
37) Dark eyes
Author
Series
Dark eyes novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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.
38) Refugees
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.
39) Homestretch
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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.
40) The blue mirror
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.