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1) Grace
Author
Language
English
Description
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep& When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When a gentleman crosses paths with a mysterious beauty, he soon finds he cannot forget her in this early-twentieth-century romantic mystery.
Tryon Dunham has just gotten off his evening train when a beautiful young woman approaches him in a panic. She is in grave danger and desperately needs his help. To keep her safe, Tryon spends an evening in her company before she disappears on a train to Chicago.
Though the mysterious woman is out of his...
4) Lena
Author
Language
English
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.
5) Ghost boy
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Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.
8) Paper hearts
Author
Language
English
Description
Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits."--
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Albert Morales's girlfriend Lily goes missing and he is the main suspect in her disappearance, he must deflect the worries of his angry parents, the suspicions of the police, and Lily's dangerous stepfather as Albert desperately tries to find her, with her sister as his only ally.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
At home with a cowboy. Miranda Kimbrough is a woman escaping her celebrity life. Linc Parker is a man with a debt to his past. Because of it, he's bought a ranch as a haven for kids-throwaway kids, homeless kids, runaways. Miranda, a runaway of a different kind, discovers Rascal Ranch. She falls for the place, the kids...and the man she considers a cowboy at heart. There's a problem, though. Parker despises the world of entertainers and celebrities,...
14) Tiltawhirl John
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the cruelties of life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the mouse discovers an outside world full of wonders: Brussels...
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Language
English
Description
"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 shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani is eager to learn everything he can about his new neighbors:...
17) Daniel's desire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys… five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton’s tavern, Daniel Devaney’s job as a child advocate forces him to investigate…and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their...
19) First love
Author
Language
English
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
20) The hideaway
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
After running away from a Massachusetts reform school, fifteen-year-old Tom, with the help of his sister, hides from the police until he can clear himself of a drunk driving charge.
