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81) Camp Wild
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
At 15, Wilf insists he's too old for summer camp. When his parents ship him off anyway, he plans to escape. Things unravel when his cabin mate forces Wilf to take him along and then a younger camper follows them. Soon, they all end up in a fight for their lives against the unforgiving river.
When Wilf's parents insist that he spend the summer at Camp Wild, he makes plans to escape.
82) Cross my heart
Author
Series
Ty and Hunter romances volume 1
Formats
Description
When Lacey Kincaid, a.k.a. heiress Lillian Dumont, decides to come out of hiding and claim her rightful inheritance at the urging of her childhood sweetheart Ty, her uncle will stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep her from getting what is hers.
83) Valiant
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 2
Description
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.
84) The Convicts
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the...
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Description
No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house to plan her next move. She never dreamed her new chapter would involve befriending Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death. While Sarah's grandmother scrambles to get custody, Faith is charged with spiriting the girl away on a journey that will restore her hope: Sarah implores...
87) Runaway
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
When Cindy runs away from home and her suitcase and money are stolen and she learns to drive a semi-trailer as a means of making a living.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Nobody believed that Pastor Matt raped her. The tight-knit religious community punished her when she spoke out, expected fifteen-year-old Mercy to repent for making false allegations. Instead, she ran. And somebody--her father?--beat Pastor Matt into a coma and left his wife for dead. Twenty-three years later, Iris has put a life together, transformed herself from runaway teen Mercy Asher to sought-after jewelry designer Iris Dashwood. But now that...
89) Rite of passage
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging.
90) Second fiddle
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are going to perform in a music competition.
92) Lena
Author
Pub. Date
2010, ©1999
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
93) Carolina Harmony
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Runaway Carolina is hiding out at Harmony Farm in 1964 trying to come to terms with the death of her father, mother and baby brother. She is holding her secrets close while the Harmonys patiently wait to hear her story. Then Russell, a troublemaker who lives in the foster home Carolina ran away from, secretly comes to Harmony Farm and Carolina thinks he is a friend. One night something so terrible happens that Carolina, desperate to stay, has no...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
"Summer 1967. The turmoil of Mao's Cultural Revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong as war rages in nearby Vietnam. White Ghost Girls is the story of Frankie and Kate, two American sisters living in a foreign land in a chaotic time. With their war-photographer father off in Vietnam, Marianne, their beautiful but remote mother, keeps the family in Hong Kong, frightened of losing her husband to a mistress or to the addiction of war itself." "Although...
96) You can run
Author
Series
Robyn Hunter mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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.
97) Tomb of Ancients
Author
Series
House of furies volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Although Louisa and her friends moved to London to escape Coldthistle House, Louisa knows she must return to find the gateway between worlds and to fight her father's evil influence.
98) Almost home
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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.
99) Road to nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2002, c1993
Description
Teresa is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast she picks up two hitchhikers and the three of them tell their stories. As they talk a darker side unfolds. it will be the longest night of Teresa's life, maybe the last one.
Author
Series
Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar, but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.