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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape...
3) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
4) River's end
Author
Series
The Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years after her three-year-old son disappeared into the wilderness of Wyoming, Daisy Tucker returns to the scene of the crime to confront the demons of her past and to find her runaway daughter, the twin sister of her missing son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex...
8) If only
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon Pulse paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an inspirational tale of hope, love, and faith set during the holiday season of 1962, as portrayed in the lost innocence of a young girl running away from her abusive stepfather and a boy determined to protect her.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
10) The harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This third novel in the "thrilling, nerve-wracking" (Shelf Awareness) Korner and Werner series follows the two detectives as they search for a missing teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life-and may prevent him from ever being found. When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears in this "masterpiece of Nordic noir" (Booklist, starred review), the police assume he's simply a runaway-a typically overlooked middle child...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her caton a mission to reclaim whats rightfully hers, even if it means making others pay for what she lost.When fifteen-year-old Allies parents are jailed for tax fraud, she's sent to a group home. But when her life...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's job as a child advocate forces him to investigate...and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their relationship four years ago, Daniel is now ready to accept responsibility for their breakup and make a fresh start. Their overwhelming attraction is undulled by time, but Molly fears risking her heart again. Daniel vows to banish the shadows...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
15) Private Paris
Publisher
Hatchette Audio
Pub. Date
p2016
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 9.5 hrs.) : digital (MP3 format) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Morgan, founder and owner of Private, the renowned global security and investigative agency, finds himself pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his wayward granddaughter, who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Former Navy SEAL Peter "Grunge" Greene's lonely but comfortable life is upended when his longtime ex-girlfriend unexpectedly dies in a car crash, leaving him sole custody of their 15-year-old daughter, Maddie. They move to San Diego to start a new life together, but Maddie quickly falls in with the wrong crowd and soon goes completely AWOL. New to town with no one to turn to, Peter is frantic to track down his daughter and accepts help from his beautiful...
Author
Series
At Home in Trinity volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1830s small-town Pennsylvania, midwife Martha Cade's world changes when she faces tense relationships, a new doctor in town whose arrival threatens her job, a town scandal, and an unexpected romance.
18) Worth dying for
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
439 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
19) The barn burner
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Progressive Rising Phoenix Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up Amish and leaving the fold, Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Missouri, at the age of eighteen. Disagreeing with the beliefs of Amish traditions and upbringing, the pressure became too much for her to bear. Forced to make a personal decision, Emma found the courage to leave the only life she had ever known.