runaways

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.

When Maisie reconnects with her estranged twenty-two year-old brother abroad while trying to save her family's portrait studio, she uncovers a truth about her parents that changes everything.

Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkinhead, run away to Oz, where they save the city after it is captured by girls with the help of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, the Animated Saw-Horse, and the Gump.

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.

"When Nell Magnificent's awful parents go to Paris for a business trip, she surprises them by tagging along. But Nell isn't planning on hanging around. The city is hiding someone very dear to her. Someone Nell affectionately calls Pear. Somone Nell is determined to find. And so Nell runs away on an epic mission during which she befriends bellboys, camps out in the laundry rooms of luxurious hotels and races through underground tunnels and catacombs. All to discover that the mystery behind Pear's disappearance leads to an even greater mystery . . . one that might implicate the whole of Paris"--Provided by publisher.

When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.

"Wilderness adventurers and expert trackers Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg go camping with their families. When they discover that their katt and dogg cousins have run away together, the clever pair must find and warn their cousins before all four of them are in need of a serious rescue mission"--.

Sick of watching his mother be abused by her boyfriend, thirteen-year-old Billy McKenna takes matters into his own hands and runs away from home. Taking refuge in an overgrown graveyard, Billy is helped by an older man who is cleaning up the cemetery. Meanwhile, as the police search for Billy, the neighborhood comes together to support Billy's mother.