Bud, Not Buddy more books like this

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Still heartbroken over the death of his mother, a 10-year-old boy named Bud decides to run away rather than live in yet another foster home. Bud is convinced that all would be perfect if he could only get in touch with his father--a man he's never met. The only clues Bud has about his father's identity are some old fliers that his mother saved- ...

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From the mixed-up files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler more books like this

by E. L. Konigsburg

This book, winner of the Newbery Medal, tells the story of how Claudia and Jamie spend a week living in New York's huge Metropolitan Museum of Art. E.L.Konigsburg wrote "Jennifer?", "Hecate", "Macbeth and Me" and "Father's Arcane Daughter".

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Paper Towns more books like this

by John Green

With his trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty, the Printz Medal-winning author of "Looking for Alaska" returns with a novel about a teenage girl who has mysteriously vanished, and the boy who looks for her by following the clues she has left behind just for him.

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The Higher Power of Lucky more books like this

by Susan Patron

The 2007 Newbery Medal winner is now in paperback. Lucky, age 10, doesn't expect running away to be so complicated. A large cast of magnanimous surprises awaits her when she plans to hide from her guardian in the Mojave Desert. Illustrations.

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Dreamland more books like this

by Sarah Dessen

Beautifully drawn with a vivid plot and sharp characters, this is a tale of a young girl held prisoner by her dreams. A spell keeps Caitlin in a dreamland from which she can't break free--even when the dreams turn into nightmares.

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Thief Lord more books like this

by Cornelia Funke

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 Venice's "Thief Lord.".

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Runaway more books like this

by Wendelin Van Draanen

""It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."" Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean. Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal ...

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Nightmare Academy more books like this

by Frank E Peretti

When one of two missing runaways turns up, a government agent steps in to take over the case. Previously assigned to the disappearances, the Veritas Project continues to investigate, and twins Elijah and Elisha go undercover. When the twins end up in a strange academy where Truth is continually challenged, a gang-like war breaks out and Elijah is ...

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler more books like this

by Elaine Koningsburg, E L Konigsburg, Greynolds

Having runaway with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

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Keesha's House more books like this

by Helen Frost

In an extraordinary debut, Frost stretches the boundaries of traditional poetic forms as she weaves together the stories of seven teenagers who courageously struggle to hold their lives together and overcome their difficulties.

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Smack more books like this

by Melvin Burgess

After being severely beaten by his father, 14-year-old Tar runs away from home and convinces his girlfriend, Gemma, to join him. They move into a squatter's residence occupied by two older radicals, but Gemma falls in with a group of heroin users who persuade her and Tar to move in with them. Soon Gemma and Tar are using heroin, and their lives ...

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The Runaway Dolls more books like this

by Ann Matthews Martin, Laura Godwin, Lynn Redgrave (Read by)

In this masterfully plotted third book in Martin and Godwin's Doll People series, best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are back. A new doll named Tilly May has arrived in a mysterious package from London, but she looks so familiar. Could she be Annabelle's long-lost baby sister?

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Legend of Jimmy Spoon more books like this

by Kristiana Gregory

Twelve-year-old runaway Jimmy Spoon is adopted by a Shoshoni family. In this story, which is based on historical fact, Jimmy learns how to adapt to the Native American way of life.

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Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie more books like this

by Holly Black

The "New York Times" bestselling author follows up her stunning debut "Tithe" with this rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love. In New York City, 17-year-old runaway Valerie Russell takes up with a gang of eerily beguiling squatters who live in the city's subway system.

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The Thief Queen's Daughter more books like this

by Elizabeth Haydon, Jason Chan (Illustrator)

On his first day as Royal Reporter of the land of Serendair, Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme--known as Ven--is sent by King Vandemere on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City, ruled by the powerful Raven's Guild run by the Queen of Thieves.

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Hie to the hunters more books like this

by Jesse Stuart

When an Appalachian family with a sixteen-year-old son takes in a runaway town boy, a friendship begins, full of shared, simple pleasures that become threatened when the town boy's father comes to take him home.

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Taking Lottie Home more books like this

by Terry Kay

At the turn of the century, two baseball players on the road fall for the same woman: a whore with a heart of gold named Lottie.

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Crazy Horse Electric Game more books like this

by C Crutcher

High school baseball star Willie Weaver expects that his athletic prowess will ensure him a bright future. Everything in Willie's life changes when he gets into a waterskiing accident and the ensuing head injury leaves him with a lurching gait and slow speech. Unable to face the pity of his family and friends and feeling like he has let his ...

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Maze more books like this

by Will Hobbs

Rick Walker is alone, on the run, and desperate. Stowing away in the back of a pickup truck, the scared 14 year old find himself at a dead end in a surreal landscape of red rocks and deep canyons called the Maze.'

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Chase the Wind more books like this

by Cindy Holby

From the moment he sees the beautiful Faith, Scottish immigrant Ian Duncan knows she's the only woman for him. But her betrothal to his employer's vicious son forces him to steal his love away on the eve of her wedding. Running for their lives, Faith and Ian are married clandestinely. While their homestead waits to be carved out of the Iowa ...

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The Mystery of Mary more books like this

by Grace Livingston Hill

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ladies? We are anxious to hear the musit at closer range." The other men rose and followed. The girl did not pause or look up as they came in, but played on, while ...

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Under the Lilacs more books like this

by Louisa May Alcott

An adventure story by the author of "Little Women" and "Jo's Boys". This joins other Louisa May Alcott titles in the Puffin Classics series.

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Away West more books like this

by Patricia C McKissack, Gordon C James (Illustrator)

This second novel in the saga of one black family's past recounts a young Southern boy's dream of heading west to a new life, and the way in which he learns the deeper meaning of the medal that his father earned during the Civil War. Illustrations.

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Dorp Dead more books like this

by Julia Cunningham

In this novel originally written in the 1960s, an orphaned boy searches for love and human affection.

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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl more books like this

by Martha Brooks

When 17-year-old Noreen Stall arrives in the small prairie town of Pembina Lake she forever changes the lives of several of the town's residents including single mother Lynda Bradley, town elder Dolores Harper, and farmer Del Armstrong.

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