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
Tiltawhirl John
A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the cruelties of life.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130