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61) Darkbeast
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Twelve-year-old Keara runs away rather than sacrifice Caw, the darkbeast she has been bound to all her life, and, pursued by the Inquisitors who would punish her for heresy, she joins a performing troupe of Travelers.
62) Claws
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
First edition.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.
64) Skate
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father.
65) Mystery Ranch
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 4
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[1986]
Description
Grandpa Alden's sister, Jane, is not feeling very well, and it's the Alden girls who go to care for her. Soon a mystery begins to unfold and the clues are everywhere; from the stranger on the train, to the beautiful yellow rocks on Aunt Jane's ranch. When Henry and Benny come out to join the girls, the four children find themselves unravelling the intriguing mystery.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 3
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
69) Coyote girl
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Running away after the random stabbing of her mother, a junior high school girl encounters a wounded coyote pup and nurses him in an abandoned root cellar in the Wisconsin woods.
70) Paper towns
Author
Formats
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
High school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and classmate,...
71) Charlie's run
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Hoping to stop his parents' impending separation and keep them from getting a divorce, eleven-year-old Charlie runs away from their house in the California countryside and finds a ride to the coast.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st edition.
Description
When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
74) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 8
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[1963]
Description
The children, who are spending the summer in a lighthouse on the New England coast, are disturbed by a mysterious woman walking the lighthouse grounds. Jessie's dog Watch wakes up growling almost every evening at midnight, and Henry finds a puzzling note in the sand.
76) Steal away
Author
Description
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 10
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[1965]
Description
Grandpa Alden and the Alden children encounter danger, excitement, adventure, and mystery in a quiet island fishing village.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[1977]
Description
The children are spending the summer on their own private island but there is a mysterious stranger on the island.
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