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1) The maze
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
2) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face...
5) Andy
Author
Series
Ellie's people volume 6
Publisher
Herald Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
An overweight, short-tempered Amish teenager learns to control his eating habits and his anger after running away to live as a hobo.
7) Grace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a cold January day in 1851, twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell huddles on the deck of the Robert Peel. He is leaving his impoverished home behind in Ireland, while in America, his father is waiting with the promise of a new life. But as Patrick watches the shoreline fade from view, he feels torn with worry. His new friend Laurence Kirkle, who is running away from home, waits for food in the ship's hold. If the captain finds the young stowaways,...
10) Chu Ju's house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of his mother's shouting and the noise of the city, Peter runs away to a beautiful garden, where he stays until he finds a way to bring a part of it home with him.
13) The hideout
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After his parents are killed by a crazed gunman in a Seattle mall, Jeremy is on his way to live with his Uncle Ed in Chicago when the train on which he is riding crashes in a blaze of fire. Wandering aimlessly away from the wreck, Jeremy finds a dese
14) Max runs away
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Jealous of the time his parents spend with his baby brother and sister, seven-year-old Max leaves home but soon learns the dangers of running away.
15) Lena
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 46
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when a local girl runs away from home with a stolen beagle puppy.
18) A summer secret
Author
Series
Mysteries of Middlefield series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Mullet and her twin brother, Johnny, discover that someone has been spending time in the old barn Mary Beth escapes to when she needs time to herself.
Author
Series
Elijah project volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zach and Piper, with divine assistance, continue to seek their kidnapped parents and protect their little brother, Elijah, from the evil Shadow Man, who places temptation in their path in the form of a beautiful runaway.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
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