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When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
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2018.
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English
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His friends know what they want to do with the rest of their lives, but Scott Ferdowsi can hardly commit to a breakfast cereal, let alone a passion. With his parents pushing him to settle on a "practical" career, Scott sneaks off to Washington, DC, seeking guidance from a famous psychologist who claims to know the secret to success. He meets Fiora Buchanan, a ballsy college student whose life ambition is to write crossword puzzles. Now Scott is sneaking...
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2021
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English
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"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.
9) Tiger wild
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Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Struggling to keep her emotions in check whenever they get very big, a little girl attempts to resist the naughty impulses of a disruptive imaginary best friend who convinces her to run away on an adventure of endless stomping, jumping, and wild fun.
10) The honest truth
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing willbe easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
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"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...
13) Come home, Angus
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Little Angus wakes up angry, and decides to run away from home when his mother scolds him for being rude--but he is very soon lost, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
15) Run
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Bo Dickinson is a seventeen-year-old girl from a bad family, but she is also over-protected, legally blind, Agnes Atwood's best friend-- so when Bo calls in the middle of the night, desperate to get out of town, Agnes helps her to steal the Atwoods' car and the two girls go on the run, even though Agnes is not sure exactly what they are running from.
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Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
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Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
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Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Miguel, who feels drawn to the priesthood, is shocked to learn of his Jewish ancestry and runs away into the desert where he meets Rushing Cloud, a Tohono O'odham youth escaping a mission school. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The heir to the Land should be strong. Fierce. Ruthless. At least, that's what Beau's father has been telling him his whole life, since Beau is the exact opposite of what the heir should be. With little control over his future, Beau is kept locked away, just another pawn in his father's quest for ultimate power. That is, until Beau meets a girl who shows him the secrets his father has kept hidden. For the first time, Beau begins to question everything...
20) The Thief Lord
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English
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Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord, " while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.
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