Author: Terry Kay
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, runaway
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0380813424
ISBN-13: 9780380813421
Tom and Son Jesus spend their days dreaming, fishing , and trying to escape work. But their fun comes to an abrupt halt when they discover a human bone, which later turns out to be part of the skeletal remains of Son Jesus’ long missing father. As sheriff Frank Rucker, a World War II hero, begins an investigation into remains, he unmasks the racially motivated killer known only as Pegleg. The sheriff’s findings divide the people of Overton County, forcing a surprising conclusion --or beginning of justice.Set in the 1940’s and using the relationships of two boys -- one b
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Keywords: airhead, runaway
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0545040604
ISBN-13: 9780545040600
Where can you hide<br>When everyone knows your name?<br><br>The third and final book the NYT bestselling trilogy.<br>Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself.<br> With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can’t explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Year’s Eve to look forward to, Em’s reached the end of her rope. . .what’s the point of even going on? <br> But when she discovers the
Author: Robert Frost
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: runaway
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1567922430
ISBN-13: 9781567922431
In one of Robert Frost’s most appealing poems for children, this quintessential New England poet brings the reader to a rolling upland meadow just as autumn turns to winter and snow begins to fall. In this interpretation, a child and mother are out for a walk and are captivated by a young Morgan colt, bewildered and skittish, reacting to his his first encounter with falling snow.With striking tableaus, bold shapes, and sumptuous colors, the artist Glenna Lang evokes the archetypal New England landscape crisscrossed with stone walls and inhabited by farm animals. Her winsome colt and symp
Author: Lysa Walker
Publisher: Runaway Publications
Keywords: runaway
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0578022095
ISBN-13: 9780578022093
A tragic night forces Kisha to runaway from home, her first stop is her best friend Tori’s house where she uncovers a horrible secret that Tori has been keeping. Her stay at Tori’s is short and she is again forced to runaway. Kisha makes covenant house, a group home for runaways her home and is introduced to Sharon. Kisha and Sharon form a friendship that include Lenore and Nadia. The girls’ bond is a dangerous one as they walk the streets looking for victims to rob. As the girls reach their eighteenth birthday it is time to leave covenant house and go out on their own. Chase
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: runaway
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-11-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1400077915
ISBN-13: 9781400077915
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gi
Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: runaway
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440421098
ISBN-13: 9780440421092
"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 entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across the country--hopping trains, scamming food, sleeping in parks or homeless encampments. And we also travel with her across the gaping holes in her heart--as she finally c
Author: Ron Roy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Keywords: mysteries, racehorse, runaway
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 0375813675
ISBN-13: 9780375813672
R is for Racehorse . . . And they’re off! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are excited to see Uncle Warren’s new racehorse, Whirlaway, in action. But the night before the big race, the horse disappears! He shows up the next day, just in time to lose the race. Why is Whirlaway suddenly so slow? Can the kids figure it out–or is Whirlaway out of the winner’s circle for good? A to Z Mysteries are fast-paced, collectible mysteries for beginning chapter book readers!
