runaways

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Unaccompanied minor

On her fifteenth birthday, April Manning, whose family members all work for an airline and who has been hiding by taking one flight after another, relates the events leading up to her making a bomb threat on a jet.

We will be crashing shortly

A young airplane pilot with an affinity for crashing finds herself stranded on a disabled plane in the middle of the ocean.

Camp Utopia and the forgiveness diet

Teen Bethany Stern tries to lose weight in order to avoid Camp Utopia, a camp for overweight teens, but when her diet fails and she is forced to attend, she runs away, hoping to healing herself.

Erased

2014
"Seventeen-year-old Anna searches for answers about her past while she evades the Branch with genetically altered boys Sam, Cas, and Nick"--Provided by publisher.

Little Peach

Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and getting lured into prostitution.

The five stages of Andrew Brawley

2015
Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital, hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, set on fire for being gay, turns his life around. Includes excerpts from the superhero comic Drew creates.

Wilder boys

2015
To evade their mother's abusive boyfriend, brothers Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, venture from the suburbs of Pittsburgh toward the wilds of Wyoming in search of the father they have not seen in four years, using their wilderness skills to survive against both natural and human dangers. Includes wilderness tips.

Since you've been gone

2015
On the run from her abusive father, fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser and her mother flee to London, England, for a fresh start. But one day, Edie's mom doesn't come home from work. Afraid to phone the police and risk being returned to her father, Edie begins a desperate search for her mother and finds an unlikely ally along the way.

Oh yeah, Audrey!

2014
Months after the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Gemma Beasley and friends she met through her Tumblr page meet in New York City to celebrate the life and style of Audrey Hepburn and her famous character, Holly Go Lightly.

Second star

Seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling sets out to find her missing surfer brothers and finds herself on a secluded California beach, where she meets Pete, Belle, Jas, and others, learns to surf, helps some of them steal while avoiding the other's drug trade, and falls in love.

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