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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.
11) The Pear affair
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, affectionately known as Pear.
12) Tiger wild
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to keep her emotions in check whenever they get very big, a little girl attempts to resist the naughty impulses of a disruptive imaginary best friend who convinces her to run away on an adventure of endless stomping, jumping, and wild fun.
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
14) Finding fortune
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Angry with her mother, twelve-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boarding house in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she meets some interesting people and learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The heir to the Land should be strong. Fierce. Ruthless. At least, that's what Beau's father has been telling him his whole life, since Beau is the exact opposite of what the heir should be. With little control over his future, Beau is kept locked away, just another pawn in his father's quest for ultimate power. That is, until Beau meets a girl who shows him the secrets his father has kept hidden. For the first time, Beau begins to question everything...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--
19) Now you say yes
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When her adoptive mother dies, fifteen-year-old Mari and is desperate to avoid being caught up in the foster system. Again. And to complicate matters, she is now the only one who can take care of her super-smart and on-the-spectrum nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor. Is there anyone Mari can trust to help them? Certainly not her mother's current boyfriend, Dennis. Not the doctors or her teachers, who would be obliged to call in social services. So in...
Author
Series
Only living boy volume 3
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Erik Farrell ran away from home and woke up without his memory in a strange and dangerous new world..."--Page 4 of cover.
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