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Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
63) Mosquitoland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
You know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, or do you? Did you know that Snow White was a secret agent? Or that the seven dwarfs were sled dogs in the Arctic? Navigate through three versions of the classic fairy tale. In these stories YOU CHOOSE how they end.
65) 12 again
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Bernadette, having wished on the eve of her fortieth birthday to be young again, wakes up the next morning as a twelve-year-old, and enrolls in her son Patrick's class in hopes of somehow enlisting his help in returning to her old self.
66) Max the Mighty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.
67) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might havelived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-- and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
68) The thief lord
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Two brothers having run away from an aunt who wants to adopt the younger one are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with and protection from the Thief Lord.
69) A hundred horses
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Rose Madsen will do anything to keep from being married off to one of the men in her Fundamentalist Mormon (FLDS) community, even endure the continued beatings and abuse of her mother. But when her mentally handicapped baby sister is forced to strangle the bird she loves at the behest of the Prophet, Rose frees the bird and runs away. Adan Reyes will do anything to escape the abusive foster care system in Phoenix, even leaving his good friends and...
71) Nothing to lose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
When she discovers long-lost relatives that have abilities like her own, Trix McCabe might have finally found somewhere she belongs, but when her past resurfaces, she'll have to decide whether to take a chance on this new life or keep running.
73) Sweet Charity
Author
Series
Horseshoe trilogies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Faith and Hope gone to new homes, Josie is left with Hope's daughter Charity. in this book, one of the girls loved the horse and wanted to buy her, but was devastated when her parents they couldn't afford her, she runs away taking Charity with her. Josie has loved Charity ever since the horse was born, now it's time to find a new home for her.
74) Let's get lost
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
76) Sons of Liberty
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
No one knows the American Revolution better than Rock Kindle. Rock takes pride in his patriotic forefathers, and his belief that he himself could brave any combat helps him through the bad times, when Rock's father wages small wars on the rest of the family.
78) Joey runs away
Author
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.
80) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.