runaways

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

When the Runaway friends are attacked by soldiers from Majesdane who want to abduct Karolina believing she has done their race a great wrong, the Runaways begin to argue over the best way to interrogate the Majesdanian warrior they captured. Running out of time, they must figure out how to stay together and not let the enemy tear them apart.

The Runaways, a group of friends whose parents were all super-powered villains, start a new life in New York City, where they become involved with Kingpin, a powerful and evil crime boss, and are transported back in time to 1907.

Journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom.

After another violent encounter with her alcoholic mother's boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Tina decides her life would bebetter if she ran away from home.

Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.

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.

Barnaby Brocket, a boy born with the ability to float and whose parents are embarrassed by it, ends up drifting into the atmosphere, traveling across the world, and eventually into space.

Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides to run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.