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1) The daughter
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios-kidnapping, murder-seem less plausible. The trail...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned barmy. But there's darkness in the madness, and when Uncle Ernie's obsession takes an unexpectedly cruel turn, Stan has no choice but to leave. As he journeys away from the life he's always known, he mingles with a carnival full of eccentric characters and meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims...
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief, a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Because driving home one night, he makes his first big mistake. A girl drenched in rain taps on his car window and asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight. Even though...
8) Trixie ten
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The youngest of ten children, Trixie grows tired of all the noise and sets off on her own to find a quiet place.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A misbehaving mouse, under the employ of Sir Sidney's Circus, finds adventure when a balloon carries him away and he meets a young runaway.
10) Foreverland
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the day that her father plans to move out of the house, twelve-year-old Margaret runs away to live in an amusement park, where a mysterious boy teaches her the basics of how to get food and avoid security.
11) Unfailing love
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As they all struggle to determine their paths forward, each begins to realize that sometimes loving well means making difficult choices"--
13) Wildlike
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling coming-of-age adventure, a troubled teen must face the dangers of the Alaskan wild, as well as her own past, in order to find her way home. Sent to stay with her uncle in Alaska while her mother is in treatment, fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is forced to flee as her uncle's attention turns threatening.
15) Come home, Angus
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Yugo, an adventurous and brave young girl, runs away from home after being scolded by her father. She returns to the fantastical kingdom in the clouds to find her friends Lala and Uncle Bear. Just as they're celebrating their reunion, a crisis breaks out: all living creatures in the kingdom are shrinking! With the help of Potato's son, Mili, Yugo, Lala and Uncle Bear realise that the crisis can be resolved if they can only find the water's source....
19) The pear affair
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nell is determined to find her beloved missing au pair in this vibrant adventure set in, and underneath, Paris. Penelope Magnificent spends as little time as possible with her awful parents-a grocery-mogul father and a fashion-obsessed mother who loves expensive purses more than she does her daughter. But when they mention an important trip to Paris, Nell begs to come along. Paris holds something very dear to her: her old au pair Perrine-Pear-who...
20) The wolf keepers
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying.
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