runaway teenagers

When fourteen-year-old Marley Willits runs away, her parents Rachel and Paul launch a social media campaign to locate her and convince her to come home, but the public exposure widens the cracks in Rachel and Paul's already tenuous marriage.

"Lia, a 17-year old orphan living by the Atlantic is swept away by the ocean currents during a ruthless storm. She is then saved by Moria and Albert, a duo of illegal runaways on their magical ship! Her normal, mundane life suddenly becomes a supernatural adventure as she learns about the powers of their kind and their relations to the human world. But Lia soon discovers that there is a dark secret hidden in a mysterious kingdom"--Back cover.

"Seth can't stand it at home anymore, so he escapes to the wild of Vancouver Island. But his best chance of survival turns out to be Brooke, who is running from problems of her own. Two teens in the wilderness--can they survive the challenges of the untamed environment and their own troubled lives?"--Back cover.

"Willow has everything: a rich daddy, a pony and a place at a prestigious boarding school. Everything except the one thing she really wants -- a father who cares enough to find her when she runs away from home. On the ever of her father's wedding, Willow runs again into the unknown. Her mother was a circus performer and Willow longs to follow in her footsteps. But when all of her money is stolen and her only friend, a street performer called Suz betrays her, Willow is left penniless and alone"--Back cover.

Seventeen-year-old Del, tired of being bounced between foster homes, is thwarted in her decision to run away by an all-day Los Angeles traffic jam, which serves as the basis of the one-woman show she writes and performs eight years later.

"Annika Dietty thinks her future is with Dylan Sopick--until they run away together. One day, after weeks of secret planning, seventeen-year-old Annika Dietty leaves home at dawn to run away with her boyfriend, the charming and popular Dylan Sopick . . . But not everything goes according to plan, and Dylan seems to be having more and more trouble dealing with every obstacle they encounter. At first Annika is sympathetic, knowing that he's had a harder life than she has, but very soon Dylan's behaviour becomes unsettling, and Annika realizes that her safety is at stake. She finally admits to herself that Dylan needs help she can't provide. She wants to get him to help--if she'll get the chance."--Publisher.

"Imagine you live with your aunt, who hates you so much she's going to sell you into a dreadful apprenticeship. Imagine you run away before that can happen. Imagine that you can see ghosts-and talk with the dead. People like you are feared, even shunned. Now imagine-the first people you encounter after your escape are a mysterious stranger and a ghost boy, who seem to need you desperately-though you don't understand who they are or exactly what they want you to do. So you set off on a treacherous journey, with only a ghost dog for company. And you find that what lies before you is a task so monumental that it could change the world"--Dust jacket.

"Kalli and Ellis have survived the destruction of the planet Istriya. As they pilot their craft back towards Earth, Kallis realizes that the deep feelings she's been experiencing for Ellis are just another example of the aliens' manipulations. Furious at both Ellis and herself for falling for their lies once again, Kalli is determined to save the other homeless girls the aliens had held captive and unconscious. She swears that once the girls have been returned, she'll never see Ellis again"--Back cover.

In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess Dombegh is none of these things. Tess journeys through the kingdom in search of the World Serpents and finds herself along the way.

"Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor"--OCLC.