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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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.
4) The stray
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Henrietta Hickathrift is tired of living in an old age home. The people are boring, the food is dull, and there's nothing fun to do. So, on the morning of her seventy-fifth birthday, Henny decides to run away. With only L50 in her purse and all her belongings in a single suitcase, she takes a train to the seaside to begin a new life. That's where she meets the five children of the Good family who insist on taking her home for a proper birthday...
6) Body surfing
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Struggling to start over again after being divorced and widowed while still in her twenties, Sydney tutors the daughter of a wealthy couple during a New Hampshire summer but finds herself caught up in a bitter family squabble.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be Gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.
11) Lena
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
12) Earthquake
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
After running away from camp in the Adirondack Mountains on his horse, Jeff encounters unimaginable ordeals, including a severe earthquake.
14) Dreamland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
15) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
17) Indigo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Young Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City, a former penal colony in the land of Serendair, where he and his friends face kidnapping and even worse dangers from the ruthless Thief Queen, who is trying to reclaim her runaway daughter.
19) The barn burner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1933 while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family which helps him make an important decision.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny...