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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.
2) 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...
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.
8) 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.
9) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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.
14) 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.
16) 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.
17) Dogville
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
18) The wild kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.
20) Max the Mighty
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.