juvenile fiction / social issues / runaways

"In 1931, nine naughty children who received coal in their stockings travel from Pittsburgh to the North Pole to plead their case to Santa Claus"--Provided by publisher.

Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.

Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.

Having grown up in a trailer park with an overworked mother and attention-deficit disorder, Robert Kelley, now eighteen, steals--and crashes--three airplanes before being caught.

After seventeen-year-old Olivia and her friend Jamie accidentally kill Jamie's abusive father, two other friends, Max and Maggie, join them in running away from St. Francisville, Louisiana, to hide out in New Orleans while they try to figure out what to do next.

Abigail's parents, believing the end of the world is near, sell their house, give their money to an end-of-times preacher, and drive from North Carolina to San Francisco where they remain homeless and destitute, as Abigail fights to keep her parents, her twin brother, and herself united against all odds.

Aoife, a changeling--half human and half from the land of Thorn--released monsters from Thorn into the Iron Lands when she destroyed the Lovecraft engine and must find away to reverse the damage.