runaway adults

When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.

As mayor of Casterbridge, Michael Henchard is lonely and dissatisfied with life as he struggles in his relationships with women. Includes explanatory notes, an overview of key themes, and a chronology of the author's life.

Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are going to perform in a music competition.

Seventh grader Patrick McBride searches desperately for his missing mother, who vanished on the evening before her fortieth birthday and is now, unbeknownst to Patrick, a twelve-year-old student at his school.

Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat decides to pack her bag, leave her secret-agent boyfriend, Max, and head out for Los Angeles to find herself.

Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat decides to pack her bag, leave her secret-agent boyfriend, Max, and head out for Los Angeles to find herself.

Bernadette, having wished on the eve of her fortieth birthday to be young again, wakes up the next morning as a twelve-year-old, and enrolls in her son Patrick's class in hopes of somehow enlisting his help in returning to her old self.