Search

Beyond The Western Sea

author: Avi
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

Runaway

author: Cabot, Meg, Benjamin, David, Citra, Becky, Stine, R. L, Van Draanen, Wendelin
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

The Barn Burner

author: Willis, Patricia
In 1933 while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family which helps him make an important decision.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: runaways, home, family life, depressions, runaway teenagers [X], historical fiction [X]

Walking To Gatlinburg

author: Mosher, Howard Frank
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson, a member of an abolitionist family in 1864, heads south after the murder of a slave in his care in search of his brother, a Union doctor who has gone missing in the midst of the Civil War, pursued by a group of escaped convicts who want the mysterious stone that has fallen into Morgan's hands.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: runaway teenagers [X], adventure fiction, historical fiction [X], united states, adventure fiction, historical fiction

Search system copyright © 2010 Genesee Valley Board of Cooperative Educational Services