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1) Mama Ruby
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, 15-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans where nothing can erase the memories of the child she lost or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and survival--whatever she is heading toward has to be better than what she is leaving behind. Struggling with her inner demons, Tanya must learn to take care of herself during two chaotic years in the working-class mill town of Port Alberni, followed by the early-nineties underground goth scene...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Working on the Underground Railroad throughout the Civil War, Morgan Kinneson is shaken by the murder of a slave and the disappearance of his brother from the Union army, triggering his life-threatening search through war-stricken landscapes.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Estados Unidos tiene enemigos, algunos de ellos personas sin escrúpulos a quienes no pueden detener ni la policía ni el FBI ni el ejército siquiera. En esos casos, el gobierno recurre a Will Robie, un sicario frio e implacable que nunca hace preguntas y siempre atrapa a su presa. Pero quizá Will Robie acaba de cometer el primer, y último, error de su carrera. El trabajo más reciente que le han encomendado ha salido mal. Rabie ha sido enviado...
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Narrated from both the mother's and daughter's perspective, a memoir describes the life of a teenage runaway; her mother's journey into the world of drugs to rescue her daughter; and the daughter's struggle back to life in a boot camp school.
11) Jumper
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
12) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America has enemies, ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target.
14) Carmen
Author
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother, how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew sh eneeded to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...
17) Standoff
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the pregnant 17-year-old daughter of multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped. When Tiel stops at a gas station, an armed couple robs the cashier and the female burglar goes into labor.
18) De nadie más
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
19) Another kind
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Six kids search for a new place to call home in this middle grade graphic novel debut by comic creators Cait May and Trevor Bream, for fans of Marvel's Runaways and The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag. Another Kind is not your average monster story. Tucked away in a government facility nicknamed the Playroom, six not-quite-human kids learn to control their strange and unpredictable abilities. Life is good -- or safe, at least -- hidden from the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and...
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