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1) Standoff
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While following a story TV reporter Tiel McCoy learns why two young runaways fear a wealthy father more than the FBI, and why she must defend them at all costs.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Resolved to leave her home for good, young runaway Beverly is determined not to depend on anyone else, but as she settles in her new home and job, she forms connections with the people around her that alter her perspectives about life and herself.
3) River's end
Author
Series
Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar, but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Etta, Peter, and Jonah take shelter in a cabin by Yellow Lake, they find solace in each other's company and realize that they have stumbled onto the scene of a crime, and the criminals have no intention of letting them escape.
6) Daredevils
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Caught dating a boy of another faith by her devout Mormon parents, 1970s teenager Loretta is married off to a fundamentalist as his second wife and runs away with his nephew and a part-Native American friend to search for a cache of gold and freedom outside their strict community.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One year after her father leaves home for a meditation retreat and never returns, Olivia, yearning to make sense of his departure and to escape her overbearing mother, runs away and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center.
9) Dark places
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking to California--just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night...
11) Camp Wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Troubled by haunting memories of the past, a rugged Christmas tree farmer from Nova Scotia and a reclusive young librarian from New York City come together amid the holiday magic of a glittering city.
16) The old religion
Author
Series
Tom Killgannon volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Cornish village of St. Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex-undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Program hiding from some very violent people, and St. Petroc's offers him a chance to live a safe and quiet life. Until he meets Lila. Lila is a seventeen-year-old runaway. When she breaks into Tom's house, she takes more than his money. His wallet holds everything about his...
17) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
19) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
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