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Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harpercollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Atty and Cole have escaped their lives in Minneapolis, leaving judgmental parents and unsavory circumstances behind. Their getaway was anything but clean, however, and both of them are haunted and hounded by the mistakes of their pasts.
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.
Author
Series
Only living boy volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of 12-year old Erik Farrell, who runs away from home only to find himself without his memory, stranded on a patchwork planet with danger lurking around every corner.
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, 14 year-old Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century. The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"That rascal Tom Sawyer cant stay out of trouble for a single minute! In this tale full of childhood mischief, adventure, and trouble, Tom turns the Mississippi town of St. Petersburgh on its ear nearly every day but theres a darker side to this town as well. When his childish adventures take a deadly turn, Tom and his outcast friend, Huckleberry Finn, must find a way to rise to the challenge, or else&!
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