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Barnaby Brocket, an eight year old, was born floating. He defies gravity, which is a horror to his parents who do not like attention.

When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.

When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.

Thirteen-year-old Maxine struggles to learn what is real when she begins receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be her runaway brother, Derek, who has just been declared dead.

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.

Henrietta Hickathrift is tired of living in an old age home. The people are boring, the food is dull, and there's nothing fun to do.

When her family seems to be too busy to appreciate her good report card, first-grader Vera decides to find somewhere else to live.

Addie's twelve-year-old brother, George, doesn't think anyone appreciates his musical talent, and when his father threatens to sell his trombone, George decides to run away from the family's prairie home.

Longing to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, sixteen-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inhabitant.

Tired of the strict rules and annoying children at her father and stepmother's house, twelve-year-old Tess walks across Tucson to her mother's condo, stopping for the night at a state park where she is adopted by a very special cat.

When everyone in her large family seems too busy around the farm to pay any attention to her, a young girl decides to run away to find someone who will watch her do her new trick.

After Ria's parents divorce, her father disappears in a plane crash and rumors begin that he may or may not have been the man that everyone thought he was.

Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.

Fourteen-year-old Finny acquires a horse without her parents knowledge and enlists the help of young Joe, a runaway, to help her train to compete in horse shows, but Joe is kidnapped and it is up to Finny and her horse, Sky, to save him.

Fleeing her father's temper, sixteen-year-old Becky boards a freight train to get out of the rain, finds a newborn child, and feels she has no choice but to bring Baby Girl along on an adventure into the unknown.