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41) The convicts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
174 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Who is Gretchen Oyster? The discovery of a series of mysterious handmade postcards distracts Hartley from trouble at home. A poignant novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Holly Goldberg Sloan. Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him. And soon he spots another. Despite his losing interest in pretty much everything...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Esmerine, a mermaid, grows close to her childhood playmate Alander, a winged man, when they join forces to find her sister Dosia, who has reportedly eloped with a human despite the sisters' vow to always keep the sea and its people first in their hearts.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kevin tries to reinvent himself when he runs away from home and the father he hates, but living with a mysterious uncle and befriending two homeless girls just adds more complications.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Cody's home life is a messy, too-often terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Cody himself is a smart kid, a survivor with a great sense of humor that helps him see past his circumstances and begin to try to get himself out. Autumn is a wealthy girl from an indigenous family, who has found herself in with the popular crowd even though it's hard for her to want to keep up. But one night, while returning home from a movie, Autumn comes across Cody,...
46) North Fork
Author
Publisher
Black Heron Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dreams of escape from her privileged but empty life are only fantasies until Kristen finds a Canadian birth certificate under her mother's jewelry box. Kristen has no memories of her early childhood or her biological father. Her stepdad controls her secretive mother, and Kristen cuts on herself. Even her best friend, Natalie, doesn't know she is haunted by thoughts of suicide. The questions raised by the birth certificate are so unsettling that Kristen...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Direct ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When six young friends discover that their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, they run away together and find strength in one another to overcome their evil legacy.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Montgomery parks her family's trailer in Fort Glory, Oregon to carve out a new life for herself and her little brother, Charlie. They need a fresh start for their family, and she thinks she's finally found it in a town where nobody knows them. Then Fort Glory disappears and every person in town vanishes into thin air--including Charlie. Rose and four other teens become trapped in the Fold, a patch of woods caught halfway between the real world...
49) Carolina Harmony
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1964, Carolina is a runaway hiding out at Harmony Farm in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. The Harmony's, Mr. Ray and Miss Latah treat Carolina as their own and wait for her to reveal her secret. But Carolina doesn't want to reveal the accident that claimer her parents and her younger brother and the surrogate grandmother who cared for Carolina until illness forced Carolina to go to a foster home. Russell, a troublemaker...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books edition.
Physical Desc
785 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects the novels of the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy, and also includes a new short story.
Tithe: Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
Valiant: Seventeen-year-old Valerie's a runaway who's living in New York City with a group of squatters. She agrees to help track down the lair of a mysterious creature, and finds herself feeling affection...
51) Providence
Author
Publisher
Merit Press/F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her father's temper, 16-year-old Becky boards a freight train to get out of the rain, finds a newborn child, and feels she has no choice but to bring Baby Girl along on an adventure into the unknown.
53) Altered
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Branch, along with the four teen boys the Branch had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Cecelia Montgomery returns home, but faces new challenges, including her mother's Presidential campaign--headquartered in Sweetbriar--and the effects of her fame on her best friend, Fiona, and boyfriend, Jasper.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
10 books (197 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 31 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title and a folder in a canvas book bag with identification tag.
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.
57) We were here
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
58) The hideaway
Author
Publisher
Pavilion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen. The book is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers the strength to leave, and comes upon a little house in the wood: a house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice, her power, herself. -- Adapted from page [4] cover.
60) Dark eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.