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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away."
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beauty contestant since she was three, Olivia, now thirteen, has begun feeling limited by her beauty but a shared journey with Danny, a boy struggling with his own appearance, show her she has choices and resources beyond her appearance.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Finny acquires a horse without her parents knowledge and enlists the help of young Joe, a runaway, to help her train to compete in horse shows, but Joe is kidnapped and it is up to Finny and her horse, Sky, to save him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
To escape his offbeat family at Thanksgiving, Andrew West accepts a ride from a band of street performers who get their food and clothing from dumpsters, but as he learns more about these "Freegans" he sees that one cannot outrun the past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
8) Me and Billy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping the orphanage where they have spent their lives together, two boys become assistants to a con artist, and while Possum objects to the lying, stealing, and cheating, Billy only cares about making money and taking life easy.
9) Shoddy Cove
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working with her family at Cosset Island Village, an historical replica for tourists of an early nineteenth-century village in New England, Clare helps two young runaways and learns about a mystery from the past.
10) Alis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised within the strict religious confines of the Community of the Book, Alis flees from an arranged marriage to the much older Minister of her town and her life takes a series of unexpected twists before she returns to accept her fate.
11) Let's get lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
12) Finding Paris
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Leo's sister Paris goes missing, she and her new friend Max must follow Paris's secret notes and clues to find her"--
13) Compromised
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.
14) Come home, Angus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1930, and Birdie William's life has crashed along with the stock market. Her father's bank has failed, and worse, he's disappeared along with his Jenny biplane. When Birdie sees a leaflet for a barnstorming circus with a picture of Dad's plane on it, she goes to Coney Island in search of answers. The barnstorming circus has lady pilots, daredevil stuntmen, fire-spinners, and wing walkers, and Birdie is instantly enchanted--especially with a girl...
16) Don't stop now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recent high school graduates Lil and Josh leave Illinois for Oregon seeking Lil's sort-of friend Penny, who faked her own kidnapping to escape problems at home and an abusive boyfriend, but Lil also wants to find out if she and Josh are meant to be more than friends.
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