Runaway
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: models (persons), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, identity (psychology), new york (n.y.), runaways, parapsychology, extrasensory perception, mystery and detective stories, runaway teenagers [X], child abuse, immigrants, frontier and pioneer life, historical fiction, murder, psychokinesis, homicide, horror fiction, runaway children, homeless persons, orphans, survival skills, diaries
The Beet Fields
In the summer of 1955, a sixteen-year-old boy runs from his troubled home and learns about people, friendship, love, and lust while working as a migrant farmer and a carny.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: teenagers, runaways, runaway children, bildungsromans, runaway teenagers [X], coming of age
Lucy The Giant
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.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640