runaways

After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.

When the daughter of the Queen of the Mischief Monsters runs away from home, it is up to Edward, Moongobble, Urk, and Fireball to return her to Monster Mountain--then start a new quest.

The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.

When Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, learn that their mother is still alive but facing grave danger if they do not return the money they took from her abusive boyfriend, Bull, they leave their father, who is not eager to help, and set off on their own again for a late autumn trek from Wyoming to Pittsburgh.

"Erik runs away from home only to wake up lost and without his memory. The world he knew has turned into a crazy, patchwork planet under a broken moon. Erik is the last living boy, but he's not alone: The world is filled with dangerous creatures fighting decide who gets eaten and who gets to eat. He'll need help from mermaid warrior Morgan and Thea, an insect princess, to escape the foes pitted against them by the dreaded Baalikar and fiendish Doctor Once"--Back cover.

Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord.".

Anna returns to her hometown after running away to New York City three years ago, where she had been a teenage prostitute, and hopes to start over with new boy Jackson, but someone in her school threatens to reveal her dark past.

When Lula learns her best friend Rory has been keeping secrets from her, she begins to question her identity and runs away to find the mother who left her fourteen years earlier.

A love-seeking mechanic, a dramatic petty thief, a disappointed planner, and a broken-hearted teen all find their lives transformed as each shares whirlwind adventures with a girl in an insanely red car.

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.