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5) Dreamland
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English
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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.
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English
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JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - Coretta Scott King Award - Author
MCL - John Newbery Medal
NPM - JUV GRL U
MCL - Coretta Scott King Award - Author
MCL - John Newbery Medal
NPM - JUV GRL U
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.
7) Gem & Dixie
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English
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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...
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Katt vs. Dogg volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Description
During a family reunion at the Eastern Wilderness Reserve, adventurers and expert trackers Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg must outsmart the rule-makers when two of their cousins run away together.
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English
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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.
11) I'm not missing
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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."--
13) The journey home
Author
Series
Wilder boys volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Aladdin MAX edition.
Language
English
Description
After Jake and Taylor learn that their mother is still alive but facing grave danger if they do not return the money they took from her abusive boyfriend, Bull, they set off on their own for a late autumn trek from Wyoming to Pittsburgh.
14) Nobody but us
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, eighteen-year-old Will who has aged out of foster care, and fifteen-year-old Zoe whose father beats her, set out for Las Vegas together, but their escape may prove more dangerous than what they left behind.
15) The bridge home
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English
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Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
16) The maze
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
17) Max the Mighty
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Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.
19) Lena
Author
Pub. Date
[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.
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