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Author
Series
Amish of Bee County volume 3
Language
English
Description
Rebekah Lantz feels imprisoned by circumstances she didn't create. Tobias Byler is haunted by regret. Can two young runaways from half a world away teach them the healing power of true family? --Publisher
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When four orphaned siblings must flee their town in the middle of the night to avoid being split up, a boxcar in the woods becomes their new home. Thanks to their practical skills, a helpful stray dog, and the kindness of strangers, the brothers and sisters are able to build a new life together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Tired of society’s rules, Huck longs to explore the wild, untamed beauty of the Mississippi River. But his life is about to change forever when he crosses paths with Jim, an escaped slave searching for his own freedom. Together, Huck and Jim brave the Mississippi's dangerous waters, meeting all kinds of characters along the way. From the cunning Duke and Dauphin to the kind-hearted Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, each encounter proves...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about. One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors...
6) Dead wrong
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lynnette Foster escapes after her newlywed husband punches her in the face, but her laptop is switched with one a criminal thug is carrying and a young runway follows her off the plane in Denver. Her life gets even more complicated when she learns her husband was murdered a few hours after she walked out on him and the police consider her a person of interest.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the small, sleepy town of Moab, Florida, folks live for ice cream socials, Jackie Robinson, and the local paper's weekly gossip column. For decades, Sheriff Winston Browne has watched over Moab with a generous eye, and by now he's used to handling the daily dramas that keep life interesting for Moab's quirky residents. But just after Winston receives some terrible, life-altering news, a feisty little girl with mysterious origins shows up in his...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, Perrine, affectionately known as Pear. With the help of a friendly bellboy at her parents' hotel, Nell sets out into-- and under-- the streets of Paris. They bring to light a sinister plot to destroy a cherished-- and delicious-- part of Parisian life. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her Uncle Poppy once provided security. What begins for Sandra as a simple painting project, meant to prepare the house for sale, becomes a secret venture that eventually changes everything. Cass Blue is having trouble keeping food on the table since she ditched foster care. When Sandra Kaye shows up with lunch...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want...
13) Clancy
Publisher
EMI Chrisitan Music Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
An abused girl runs away from home and winds up living on the streets of the city. Once there, she meets up with Nick, an ill-tempered, homeless veteran. The city's corrupt mayor devises a plan to capitalize on the Clancy's disappearance in order to ensure his re-election. But the mayor's scheme takes an unexpected turn, and Clancy and Nick find themselves on the run.
14) Come home, Angus
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia 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 familytragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
18) The daughter
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015.
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...
19) Into the dark
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns with a new thriller in her chilling Cincinnati series. Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he's always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his stepfather comes after Joshua, Michael takes the child and runs. He's determined to protect his brother at all costs, even if that means making himself vulnerable to a danger he can't hear coming. And the danger...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Alberto, the town's coffin maker, and Tito, a runaway boy, both lonely after suffering tragic losses, learn the power of friendship as they try to escape the shadows of their pasts.
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