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21) House of furies
Author
Series
House of furies volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house's mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside and his unusual staff are...
22) Punkzilla
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1200L
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
23) Out of reach
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
24) Smoke
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
25) Life before
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
vii, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Pearl runs away from her abusive father, she 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 Ramshackle, a hobo who takes her under his wing. Ramshackle's kindness and protection go a long way toward helping Soupy heal from her difficult past. But he has his own demons to wrestle with, and he'll need Soupy just as much as she needs him. Two misfits...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rather than be placed in a special school for psychologically-challenged students, Dylan, six months from turning eighteen, sets out on the Appalachian Trail, where he makes surprising connections with other hikers.
28) Camp Wild
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wilf is convinced his parents want nothing to do with him. When he isn't in school, he is left to his own devices or shipped away to camp. But at fifteen, Wilf is adamant that he is too old for summer camp. When his parents ignore his protests and ship him off anyway, he knows how he will get their attention: He will escape from camp by canoe and spend the rest of his vacation alone in the woods, proving to his parents he deserves his independence....
29) Shooting lights
Author
Series
Publisher
Epic Escape, an imprint of Epic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tree has always been content with her quiet village life. It's her best friend, Jeanne, who keeps dragging her into trouble. When Jeanne "kidnaps" Tree in order to visit Stonehenge for the 1987 summer solstice, their paths tangle with two displaced army kids, and what starts out as a simple road trip quickly turns into something far more complicated.
Author
Publisher
Entagled Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A few months before his eighteenth birthday, Hector runs away to the remote Isle Royale on Lake Superior. In the spring, when he'll be legally free from his brutal uncle, he can go back to the mainland. Until then, he'll have to weather the vicious autumn storms and find a way to survive the hostile, uninhabited island.
31) Stick
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.
32) Wonder show
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally,...
33) Defining Dulcie
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Acampora makes his exciting debut in young adult fiction with this poignant tale of a girl coping with the recent death of her father. When her mother moves the family to California, Dulcie decides to drive her father's pickup truck back to Connecticut on her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away."
35) Run
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who's not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never broken any of her parents' overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect their legally blind daughter protect her from what, Agnes isn't quite sure. Despite...
36) The rapids
Author
Series
Publisher
EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old foster kid Tamika finds herself on the edge of the Missouri river in the grips of depression. A stray rock and some quick thinking puts her in the company of a young couple on a source-to-sea kayaking trip down the river. When the group faces the dangers of the river, Tamika must decide if she has the strength to fight for her own life" --
37) Runaway twin
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
All her life Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. This summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it is time for Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away. Furious at his betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle,...
39) We were here
Author
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Xochi's life changed when she became governess to precocious twelve-year-old Pallas, but the duo unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures determined to right the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence.
Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. She accepts a position as governess to Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions....