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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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina Morgan's bloodstained car was found a decade ago on a lonely Florida road. Forensic evidence suggested she&;d been murdered, although her body was never found. Her disappearance left her infant children to the care of their father. Once a pilot, mother, wife, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina had to flee her old life to save her family. She reinvented herself as Leah Trenton, a guide in the Allagash Wilderness in northern Maine. She never...
3) 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
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
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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.
8) 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.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
11) James: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
12) My real family
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Pr/Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994 4]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
unp col illus
Language
English
Description
Sarah, convinced that she is adopted, runs away from the Bear Family Theater to find her "real parents"
13) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind 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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
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.
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.
18) Into the dark
Author
Series
Cincinnati volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he's always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his stepfather comes after Joshua, Michael takes the child and runs. He's determined to protect his brother at all costs, even if that means making himself vulnerable to a danger he can't hear coming. And the danger intensifies when Michael witnesses a stranger kill his stepfather. Desperate and afraid, the boys have nowhere...
Author
Publisher
North South
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Brayden Bunny doesn't feel like picking up his toys or washing his whiskers. It'd be so much easier to live with his friends, so Brayden decides to give it a try. But every new home he visits come with a new problem: Missy Mouse's house is too messy, Benny Badger's house smells a little funny, and Fipsi Squirrel's house is too high. At last Brayden Bunny visits his Cousin Pepi. Everything there is perfect and easy, but it doesn't take long for Brayden...
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 3
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
126 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Skye and Morgan have their hands full trying to share friendship and God's love with Tanya, a new foster child in the Chambers' household, who is a veteran shoplifter and a runaway but who shows surprising devotion to a mare and her foal.