runaway children

Addie's twelve-year-old brother, George, doesn't think anyone appreciates his musical talent, and when his father threatens to sell his trombone, George decides to run away from the family's prairie home.

When her family seems to be too busy to appreciate her good report card, first-grader Vera decides to find somewhere else to live.

When the puppy gets in trouble for chewing shoes, his owner makes plans to run away.

While running away from home because no one seems to need his help for anything, Bernie finds a lot of people on the way who find his help very useful.

Seventeen-year-old Paul Hendry runs away from home and joins Omega Place, a radical organization intent on upsetting England's country-wide closed-circuit surveillance system, but soon discovers that the other members of the group may not be entirely altruistic.

A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.

Two sisters run away from their abusive stepfather and settle in an abandoned house in West Texas, only to find that they are not alone but share the premises with the mysterious and helpful Hobkin.

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 Presented in English and Russian.

Presents Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," the story of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.