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 [X]
Lucy The Giant
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: runaways, family problems, fishing boats, coming of age [X], runaway teenagers [X], alaska
Breathing Fire
Running away from her foster home, Ally finds herself on the busking circuit, performing as a juggler and fire breather.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: runaway teenagers [X], street entertainers, runaways, foster children, teenage girls, coming of age [X], teenagers, girls, bildungsromans, electronic books
Road Tripped
Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: automobile travel, interpersonal relations, missing persons, coming of age [X], runaways, mississippi river region, bildungsromans, bildungsromans, runaway teenagers [X], domestic fiction
Ash's Cabin
"Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wilderness survival, runaway teenagers [X], gender-nonconforming people, human-animal relationships, climatic changes, coming of age [X], adventure and adventurers, bildungsroman fiction, graphic novel, lgbtqia+ fiction, california, queer comics, coming-of-age comics, action and adventure comics, graphic novels