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Runaways

When trust-fund daughter Kaylee and her bad-boy boyfriend Mason go missing, the students at their prestigious prep school are interrogated by police, and soon it leaks that one of the couple has been murdered.

The chaos

2011
Like his mother, Jem, when fifteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.

Numbers

2010
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.

The littlest pig

1986
Unable to bear his brothers' and sisters' teasing, the littlest pig in the family runs away from home, sure that he is unloved.

Ghost boy

Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen year old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.

Love, Debra

a novel
1990
Running away from her sexually abusive father, fifteen-year-old Debra discovers a world of alcohol, drugs, and prostitution which she describes in a series of letters to her dead mother.

Escape from home

2012
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.

Providence

Fleeing her father's temper, sixteen-year-old Becky boards a freight train to get out of the rain, finds a newborn child, and feels she has no choice but to bring Baby Girl along on an adventure into the unknown.

Smudge's grumpy day

2001
Smudge is so grumpy she runs away from home to her treehouse.

The badger knight

2014
In England in 1346 Adrian has three problems: he is small for his twelve years, he is an albino, so people are suspicious of him, and his father wants him to be a scribe, while he wants to be an archer--but when he runs away to join his friend in the fight against the invading Scots, he learns that war can be a lot more complicated then he imagined.

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