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62) Dead end kids
Author
Series
Runaways volume 8
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Still on the run from their super-villain parents, these teens welcome a powerful stranger only to discover his evil intentions. Then the group runs into Cloak and Dagger, who've been sent to bring them in.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? It's the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City's East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she's just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise....
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
At The Shelter, no one judges the runaway teens who come in off the rainy Seattle streets. Volunteers, like police psychologist Daphne Matthews, want only to rescue and rebuild lives. But, what she encounters in a sixteen-year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no longer could. Daphne turns for help to the best cop she knows, a man with creative instincts and an appreciation for forensic lab techniques, Lou Boldt.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young Mexican-American woman compromises her future in a moment of searing humiliation, while a narcissistic action-movie star risks everything in his obsession over an unattainable love in this tapestry of tales of life in Los Angeles from a number of colorful characters that define various aspects of the glittering, vibrant, yet sometimes terrifying City of Angels.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Furious at her father, who is caught up in a sex scandal, and suffering from panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorder, fifteen-year-old Emilia December de Wit runs away from Amsterdam to New York City, where she meets sixteen-year-old Seth, and his eleven-year old sister Abby--and then hurricane Sandy hits and the lights go out.
68) Winter and night
Author
Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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69) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Indigenous teens Miikwan and Dez are best friends that navigate living in the city together, but when Dez's grandmother gets sick, Dez runs away instead of going to a group home, leaving Miikwan and the community to try and find her.
Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape―they’re so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together....
71) The lost days
Author
Series
Emily the Strange graphic novellas volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Emily the Strange has lost her memory and finds herself in the town of Blackrock with nothing more than her diary, her slingshot, and the clothes on her back.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary poetic retelling of the iconic myth, a teenage girl fleeing an abusive home takes refuge in the woods with a fairy-tale witch.
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers the strength to leave, and comes upon a little house in the wood: a house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice,...
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