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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned balmy. But there's darkness in the madness, and when Uncle Ernie's obsession takes an unexpectedly cruel turn, Stan has no choice but to leave. As he journeys away from the life he's always known, he mingles with a carnival full of eccentric characters and meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nell is not happy about spending her school vacation with relatives she doesn't know. Expecting nothing more than silly little cousins and boring farm life, she sneaks along a special suitcase that once belonged to her father. In it, she knows, are the parts of a music box and sixteen miniature painted horses, and she thinks maybe she can fit them all back together. But the countryside has unexpected surprises. When a half-wild and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program's scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that's full of surprises.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to strike it rich, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush"--
Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush, desperate to get away from their drunkard of a father. Onboard a ship, Jasper overhears a rumor about One-Eyed Riley, an old coot who's long since gone, but is said to have left clues to...
Author
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Willow loves the woods near her house. They're calm and quiet, so different from her own turbulent emotions, which she keeps locked away. When her emotions get the better of her one day, she decides to run away into the woods. There, she meets Pilu, a lost tree spirit who can't find her way back home--which turns out to be the magnolia grove Willow's mom used to take her to. Willow offers to help Pilu, and the two quickly become friends. But the...
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