Beyond The Western Sea
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
subjects: emigration and immigration, runaway teenagers [X], adventure and adventurers, immigration and emigration, ireland, england, runaways, historical fiction [X]
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 [X], murder, psychokinesis, homicide, horror fiction, runaway children, homeless persons, orphans, survival skills, diaries
The Barn Burner
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
Walking To Gatlinburg
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