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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
2) First Love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Axi Moore is a "good girl": she studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can confide in is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree...
3) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seven teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from an Arizona prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
6) Smoke
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
7) The goats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
8) Num8ers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
10) Kiss kill vanish
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"A teenage girl flees her opulent life in Miami when she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder that was ordered by her father"--
11) The Replaced
Author
Series
The Taking (Kimberly Derting) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Kyra hasn't been the same since she returned from her mysterious five-year disappearance. Now, on the run from the NSA, Kyra is forced to hide out with others who, like her, have been Returned. Yet she is determined to find Tyler, the boy she loves who was also abducted.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried. So she decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy. But when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets.
14) The Thief Lord
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord." Welcome to the magical world of Venice, Italy, where hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets.
15) You can run
Author
Series
Robyn Hunter mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Robyn learns difficult truths about Trisha Hanover's life and finds herself in danger while investigating the disappearance of the teen who ran away from home.
16) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
17) Punkzilla
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Palace rules, boarding school, and paparazzi have Jenna, princess of the newly unified kingdom of Scandia, longing for her former anonymity, but when she runs away she finds herself in grave danger--and in a position to prevent the outbreak of civil war.
20) Chu Ju's house
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.