runaway teenagers

Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.

Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.

Narrated from both the mother's and daughter's perspective, a memoir that describes the life of a teenage runaway, her mother's determination to find her, and the daughter's struggle to overcome self-hatred and depression.

America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret.

Teresa is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast she picks up two hitchhikers and the three of them tell their stories. As they talk a darker side unfolds. It will be the longest night of Teresa's life, maybe the last one.

Seventeen-year-old Faith shepherds her neglectful, drug-addicted mother through her pregnancy and then kidnaps the baby, taking on the responsibility of being her baby sister's parent while hiding from the authorities.

When fourteen-year-old T.J.'s family is forced to move to a suburb, she has trouble fitting in at school and befriends Elizabeth Wood, a six-inch-tall sixteen-year-old girl with an attitude.

Jane Whitefield comes out of retirement to help a young woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship with her real estate mogul boyfriend who will do anything to get her and their unborn child back.

The story of a thirteen-year-old runaway who turns up at the home of her eccentric aunt in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Presents the results of a study of twenty-six runaway teenagers in a New England shelter to provide insight into the reasons why teens make the decision to leave their families, and how they feel about their actions.