runaway children

Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesky young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.

Seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith, having been left home to take care of her younger brother while her parents are on vacation, realizes that he and a friend have headed for the North Pole in an attempt to save Santa Claus from global warming, and, to make matters worse, the playmate's brother is Lila's ex-boyfriend and she has to rely on his help to make sure the children are returned home safely.

Adam, who sees the dates people will die and feels the pain of their deaths when he looks in their eyes, returns to London, and he wonders if catastrophe is coming when many people's numbers are in January 2027, particularly on New Year's Day.

In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-African-American town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.

Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft, sharing many adventures along the way.

Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.

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.".

These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page. Included are eight pages of end-of-book activities to enhance the reading experience. Freedom is everything to Huckleberry Finn. How can he avoid being "civilized" by the good-hearted Widow Douglas? But just now Huck has more important things on his mind-- like helping his friend Jim escape the slave-catchers! --Publisher.

Barnaby Brocket, a boy born with the ability to float and whose parents are embarrassed by it, ends up drifting into the atmosphere, traveling across the world, and eventually into space.