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Presents a discussion of teen runaways, examining the reasons why teens run away from home, and providing information about life on the streets, associated health risks, and programs that offer help.

Nick, a sixteen-year-old runaway, is selected for training at a secluded mansion to become one of the elite of living statues, actors who can live a life of ease if they are willing to train hard enough and please their mysterious benefactor, but who may be destroyed if they do not measure up.

After Ria's parents divorce, her father disappears in a plane crash and rumors begin that he may or may not have been the man that everyone thought he was.

Teresa is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast she picks up two hitchhikers and the three of them tell their stories.

Presents the stories of teenagers who have run away from home, the reasons why they did so, and possible solutions to the problem of runaways.

Explores the path from runaway to teen prostitute and examines the links between these activities and drug use among teenagers.

Running away from her foster home, Ally finds herself on the busking circuit, performing as a juggler and fire breather.

Seventeen-year-old Kevin tries to reinvent himself when he runs away from home and the father he hates, but living with a mysterious uncle and befriending two homeless girls just adds more complications.

Seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling sets out to find her missing surfer brothers and finds herself on a secluded California beach, where she meets Pete, Belle, Jas, and others, learns to surf, helps some of them steal while avoiding the other's drug trade, and falls in love.

Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital, hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, set on fire for being gay, turns his life around.

"Against all odds, Atty and Cole have escaped their lives in Minneapolis, leaving judgmental parents and unsavory circumstances behind.

"Seth can't stand it at home anymore, so he escapes to the wild of Vancouver Island.

Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Eighteen-year-old Bea runs from her small-town Texas home and meets Lou, who is taking a road trip to cope with the grief of losing her mother.

"Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him.