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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014, c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Keena goes missing before her big art show, Xriss knows something is wrong. He follows clues to find her and quickly discovers that he's not the only one looking. Her abusive father and a local gang are both on her trail. Xriss needs to find Keena before it's too late.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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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." Welcome to the magical world of Venice, Italy, where hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets.
7) The runaways
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest--the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and Grandpa...
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Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.
9) The maze
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Samirah, a spirited Arabian filly, has been carefully raised and trained by her girl, Jasper, on a struggling dude ranch near the Green River in Utah. Sami and Jasper, both searching for their place in the world, bond on their joyous rides together and become so close that each will do anything for the other. As the ranch's fortunes decline, Jasper fears that her beloved horse will be sold. Desperate, she concocts a plan that unwittingly brings the...
13) Deerskin
Author
Description
Princess Lissar decides she must leave her father's kingdom and escape his wrath, taking with her, her loyal dog Ash, she finds another worlf of magic and great adventure
14) Wilder boys
Author
Series
Wilder boys volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
15) Pax
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's...
16) Tiltawhirl John
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the cruelties of life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
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.
18) The Jinx
Author
Series
A misfit's life for me volume I
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Elizabeth is tired of being mistreated in her orphanage, so she runs away and hides in a ship's cargo hold. But when the ship sets sail, two crewmen discover her during a storm. They think she's a jinx! What will become of Elizabeth now?" -- Back cover.
20) Defining Dulcie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.