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Runaway Twin

author: Kehret, Peg
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a monetary windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington in order to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: foster home care, voyages and travels, dogs, runaway teenagers [X], twins, runaways [X]

Refugees

author: Stine, Catherine
Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
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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

America

author: Frank, E. R
America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610

Death Wind

author: Bell, William
Allie, failing school and fearing she is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, decides there is no way she can face her always fighting parents and decides to run away, but she gets a different perspective on her life and future when a tornado hits, destroying her home and injuring her mother.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: runaways [X], teenage pregnancy, skateboarders, tornadoes, runaway teenagers [X]

The Beet Fields

author: Paulsen, Gary
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 [X], runaway children, bildungsromans, runaway teenagers [X], coming of age

Solace Of The Road

author: Dowd, Siobhan
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650

Blink & Caution

author: Wynne-jones, Tim
Blink, hoping to steal some breakfast, is forced to go on the run after stumbling upon the fake kidnapping of a CEO and recovering the man's cell phone, and he meets up with Caution, a girl trying to ditch her drug-dealing boyfriend, who identifies Blink as a mark until he tugs at her heart strings.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650

Smack

author: Burgess, Melvin
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: runaways [X], heroin, drug abuse, england, runaway teenagers [X], anarchists, prostitution

The Tanglewood Terror

author: Scaletta, Kurtis
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.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

Runaways

author: Moore, Terry
When the Runaway friends are attacked by soldiers from Majesdane who want to abduct Karolina believing she has done their race a great wrong, the Runaways begin to argue over the best way to interrogate the Majesdanian warrior they captured.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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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 [X], home, family life, depressions, runaway teenagers [X], historical fiction

First Love

author: Patterson, James
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: runaway teenagers [X], automobile travel, cancer, conduct of life, runaways [X]

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