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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Harrowing loss, psychological trauma, and a deadly mystery test the human will to survive in this electrifying novel from award-winning author Brian Freeman. Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls , named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the Dark Star.;...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
A grieving father, private investigator Cal Weaver, offers a ride to a teenage girl in the hopes of finding information on the drug dealer responsible for his son's death, but discovers a web of secrets and lies in the small upstate New York town of Griffon.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion to an African-American woman at whose side she learns harsh lessons about segregation and family.
6) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret.
7) The daughter
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier and runs away from home with his dog, Beau, but there are over two hundred miles between him and his goal and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joy Delamere is suffocating from asthma, overprotective parents, and an abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of Seattle and falls in with a "street family" that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an accident leaves him confined to a wheelchair, Amish farmer James Lapp decides it is best to part with girlfriend Rachel King, until a runaway Englisher girl helps him to realize that true strength lies within.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
163 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
15) The hunted
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
151 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
16) Wild life
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within 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.