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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."
4) Stick
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.
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
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
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.
7) Take me on
Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Champion kickboxer Haley swore she'd never set foot in the ring again after one tragic night. But then the guy she can't stop thinking about accepts a mixed martial arts fight in her honor. Suddenly, Haley has to train West Young. All attitude, West is everything Haley promised herself she'd stay away from. Yet he won't last five seconds in the ring without her help. West is keeping a big secret from Haley. About who he really is. But helping her-fighting...
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.
9) Transparent
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a small town where they're determined to start a normal life."-- Provided by publisher.
10) 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.
Author
Series
Requiem dark volume 1
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.
12) Paper hearts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 750L
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.
13) Little Peach
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and getting lured into prostitution.
14) 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"--
15) Second star
Author
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling sets out to find her missing surfer brothers and finds herself on a secluded California beach, where she meets Pete, Belle, Jas, and others, learns to surf, helps some of them steal while avoiding the other's drug trade, and falls in love.
16) 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.
17) 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.
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...
19) 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.
20) Castle of refuge
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 2
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her life.
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