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Weary of life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind.

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.

Huck, escaping from his cruel father, meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they embark on a grand adventure down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Bryn, having become alpha of the Cedar Ridge Pack three months earlier, realizes that in order to protect her pack she must give in to her animal instincts and ignore her human behaviors after an injured were from Shay's pack shows up on her door seeking asylum and she learns Shay is using humans will otherworldly powers to make a move against her.

Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.

In the summer of 1936, Tony runs away from his home above his family's Italian restaurant in Chicago, while in Berlin David is present at the Olympics and prepares to move to America.

Seventeen-year-old "Hank" can't remember his identity or past when he wakes up in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's "Walden" as his only possession.

After her mother accidentally causes the death of her Mexican boyfriend, an illegal immigrant, Kathleen runs away with her rebellious, worldly girlfriend to Baja California.

In 1848, fifteen-year-old Phoebe Brown disguises herself as a boy and runs away with her friend Robbie Robson to join in the California gold rush and, after many adventures, they eventually find themselves running a restaurant in San Francisco.

Jena runs away from her elite boarding school, hoping to escape the pressures of being a princess, but when she is kidnapped by Bolstrom, who is trying to overthrow the royal family, she must put her fears aside and escape her captor before the rebellion turns to war.

Examines the problems that lead young people to live on the streets and what life is like for them there.

Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.

Narrated from both the mother's and daughter's perspective, a memoir that describes the life of a teenage runaway, her mother's determination to find her, and the daughter's struggle to overcome self-hatred and depression.

Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.