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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) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that...
Author
Series
Ralph the mouse volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.
10) Louis
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of the "dangerous adventures" with his human boy, a teddy bear decides to run away but reconsiders when bedtime arrives.
11) Peter's chair
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
13) Halloween night
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on "The Night Before Christmas," this rhyming story tells of a group of animals, monsters, and witches who prepare such a frightening Halloween party that their expected trick-or-treaters all run away.
14) Hugless Douglas
Author
Series
Hugless Douglas volume 1
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Douglas the bear wakes up one morning wanting a hug. He unsuccesffully tries hugging a rock, a tall tree, and an odd-feeling bush that runs away. Won't anyone give him a hug?
16) Who is coming?
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little African monkey runs away from all the dangerous animals except one.
17) Darkside: Book 1
Author
Series
Darkside volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked when, while running away from kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendants of Jack the Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find the way out.
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