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English
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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
One of the bestselling Christian novelists of our time, Janette Oke's books have been described as stories that never go out of style. Her readers have enjoyed and benefited from the spiritual insights and practical faith in God that accompany her homey stories. This books is the moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.
4) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
On her way to a vacation, TV reporter Tiel McCoy hears that the teenage daughter of a Texas tycoon has been kidnapped. Racing to cover the story, she stops at a convenience store where she is taken hostage in a hold-up attempt by two desperate young lovers--one of which is the pregnant tycoon's daughter. Tiel must act fast to avert a disaster.
5) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone-cold hit man who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and the last--mistake of his career ... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target, but something about this mission doesn't seem right, and he does the...
Author
Series
Harmony novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony--and Reagan learns the true meaning of family, friends, and home" -- from publisher's web site.
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.
10) Runaway
Author
Series
Fear Street volume 43
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Felicia does'nt want to run away anymore from her past, but will someone find out about her awful powers.
She can't run away from her past. Shadyside. It sounded like such a nice town, the perfect place for a runaway like Felicia. Nobody here would know about her dark powers. Nobody would know what she had done. For once, she could be a normal girl. She could be safe. But someone in Shadyside discovered Felicia's secret. Someone found out about...
12) Runaway kids and teenage prostitution: America's lost, abandoned, and sexually exploited children
Author
Series
Contributions in criminology and penology volume no. 54
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Formats
13) Teen runaways
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
14) Runaways
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Orphans volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
15) Bird in a cage
Author
Series
Publisher
Perfection Learning Corp
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Clint Asuna, a junior at Grissom High School, finds a beautiful girl hiding behind his truck in the school parking lot. At first he thinks it is a joke that his friends have played on him. But Clint soon finds out this strange, beautiful girl is no joke. Who is she and who is she hiding from?
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English
Description
"Set in the early 1970s amid the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth"--
1969. 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...