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62) Bud, not Buddy
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English
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
63) The wolf keepers
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying.
65) Finding Paris
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English
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"When Leo's sister Paris goes missing, she and her new friend Max must follow Paris's secret notes and clues to find her"--
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English
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Set in 1932, this is the story of two misfits with no place to call home, who build a relationship during a train hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California
Pearl Plankette ran away from her abusive father, but has nowhere to go until she stumbles upon a disguise that gives her the key to a new identity. Reborn as a boy named Soupy, she hitches her star to Remy "Ramshackle" Renault, a...
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Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
After discovering their parents are all part of a criminal organization that controls all crime in the Los Angeles area, six teens run away not only to distance themselves from their families, but to figure out a way to stop them as well.
69) Finding fortune
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English
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Angry with her mother, twelve-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boarding house in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she meets some interesting people and learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
70) A hundred horses
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English
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
71) Wilder boys
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Series
Wilder boys volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To evade their mother's abusive boyfriend, brothers Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, venture from the suburbs of Pittsburgh toward the wilds of Wyoming in search of the father they have not seen in four years, using their wilderness skills to survive against both natural and human dangers. Includes wilderness tips.
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Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Runaways have reinvented themselves as the J-Team, sidekicks to longtime West Coast hero Doc Justice. But the good Doctor has some worrying skeletons in his closet, and the Runaways must work overtime to keep his past from affecting their future! Now, as Doc Justice and the J-Team undertake a dangerous new mission, prepare for the most battle-heavy story in Runaways history! It doesn't end well for anyone, and you will not believe your eyes. Plus:...
73) Let's get lost
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English
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Four strangers with one thing in common, a girl named Leia, begin a journey across the country.
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English
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Rose Madsen will do anything to keep from being married off to one of the men in her Fundamentalist Mormon (FLDS) community, even endure the continued beatings and abuse of her mother. But when her mentally handicapped baby sister is forced to strangle the bird she loves at the behest of the Prophet, Rose frees the bird and runs away.
Adan Reyes will do anything to escape the abusive foster care system in Phoenix, even leaving his good friends and...
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English
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Magic solves everything…right?
After the events of Unbound: A Siren's Quest for Freedom, the adventures continue with Stefan and Kesia's daughter, Lesley.
Lesley was an average girl who had just started her travels around the world with her best friend, Alex. Everything was perfectly normal for teenagers around their age, that is until a deranged man tried to kidnap Lesley, only to be saved by a strange looking beast, named Evan.
Evan wanted...
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English
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In the midst of a heaven-rattling summer storm a young stranger blows into a small prairie town. On the run after taking her latest boyfriend's truck, with a pocketful of stolen money and a heart full of pain, seventeen-year-old Noreen Stall seems to invite trouble. And trouble comes soon enough, as Noreen's new mistakes trigger calamities that shake the lives of the residents of Pembina Lake. Acclaimed novelist Martha Brooks has written an unforgettable...
78) Voiceless
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English
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Runaway teen Annabel, nicknamed Ghost, doesn't speak. Her interaction with her world is limited to how well she can convey her wants and feelings to others, and how intuitive others are in interpreting her expressions and gestures. Confused by her mother's addictions, and the loss of the guidance of her grandmother, Ghost is driven to the road by a search for love. When she mistakenly thinks she must leave the shelter and safety of a good foster home,...
79) The elementals
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Series
Vespertine volume 3
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
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