runaway teenagers

Davy, a young man, discovers he has a power that sets him apart from others, teleporting.

Widowed Christmas tree farmer Christopher Byrne and widowed librarian Catherine Tierney are brought together when Christopher returns to the Manhattan street corner where he last saw his sixteen-year-old son, who ran away the year before.

Private investigator Bill Smith tracks a fifteen-year-old boy who has escaped police custody back to his home town in New Jersey, where he hopes to learn more about why the boy is on the run.

Boston private investigator Sunny Randall finds herself in the middle of a shooting war with the mob when she is hired by a wealthy family to locate their runaway daughter Millicent, and must call upon her underworld contacts to rescue the teen who has turned to prostitution.

Contains representative stories of young people who have run away from home and are part of the "hardcore homeless" teenage population.

Teenage runaways Melanie and Trent try to stay in school after they leave home and try to stay off the streets by getting part-time jobs, but it becomes difficult to balance the demands of school with their low-paying jobs.

Martha Tod Dudman discusses how she dealt with her daughter's drug addiction.

A thirteen-year-old boy learns life's lessons when he runs away from the farm to join a traveling medicne show.

In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy, Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.