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Runaway teenagers

  • The upper room
    Author:
    Monroe, Mary
    Summary:

    Mama Ruby stole her best friend's baby girl, ran off to Florida, and raised her as her own. Maureen is the center of Mama Ruby's world, and she will do anything to protect her and their life together. Now Maureen wants to know...
  • The Tim Wynne-Jones bundle
    Author:
    Wynne-Jones, Tim
    Summary:

    The Maestro. Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he...
  • The school of beauty and charm
    Author:
    Sumner, Melanie
    Summary:

    Although Louise Peppers' family is a bit eccentric and dysfunctional, they are also loving and supportive. In conventional Counterpoint, Georgia, Louise grows up to be a "normal" teen. But after the accidental death of...
  • The Maestro
    Author:
    Wynne-Jones, Tim
    Summary:

    Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets...
  • The last good place of Lily Odilon
    Author:
    Beitia, Sara
    Summary:

    "We have to get to her first…" Abducted? Runaway? Murder victim? Lily Odilon—local wild child from a middle-of-nowhere town—has vanished after spending the night with her boyfriend, new kid Albert Morales. Suspected in her disappearance...
  • The Catcher in the Rye
    Author:
    Salinger, J.D.
    Summary:

    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...
  • The catcher in the rye
    Author:
    Salinger, J. D.
    Summary:
  • Surviving the city
    Author:
    Spillett, Tasha
    Summary:

    "Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the...
  • Summer of Fire
    Author:
    Bass, Karen
    Summary:

    When Canadian teen Delora James finds herself banished to Germany for the summer, reading the professor's old journals seems like a good time- waster. Once Del begins to read the translated diary of Garda - a teenager in World War II,...
  • Smoke
    Author:
    Hopkins, Ellen
    Summary:

    Pattyn's father is dead. Now she's on the run in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling Burned. Pattyn Von Stratten's father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run. After far too many years of abuse at the hands of her...
  • Saving Grace
    Author:
    Ryan, Darlene
    Summary:

    Evie is determined to care for her baby - even if it means kidnapping her.
  • Runner
    Author:
    Perry, Thomas
    Summary:

    In the sixth book of the Jane Whitefield series, Jane finds herself giving up her promise of retirement when, in the aftermath of a bomb explosion, she comes to the assistance of a young pregnant girl, who is being tracked down by a...
  • Roseborough
    Author:
    Wood, Jane Roberts
    Summary:

    Three weeks after Mary Lou's husband dies, her 14-year-old daughter runs away. Nearly paralyzed with grief, Mary Lou stays grounded through her job at the Dairy Queen. Then one day, she signs up for a single-parenting class. Armed with...
  • No place for kids
    Author:
    Lohans, Alison
    Summary:

    Sisters Jennifer and Sarah were once part of a happy, stable family, but their idyllic life comes to an abrupt halt with the death of their mother. Unable to cope with his grief and the needs of his two young daughters, their father...
  • My book of life by Angel
    Author:
    Leavitt, Martine
    Summary:

    Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, selected for the CCBC Choices List, selected for the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013, and honoured with the Horn Book Fanfare. It starts when Call sees...
  • Miss Kopp's midnight confessions
    Author:
    Stewart, Amy.
    Summary:

    The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters. Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women...
  • Miles from nowhere
    Author:
    Mun, Nami
    Summary:

    Growing up in the Bronx during the '80s, Korean immigrant teen Joon is forced out on her own as her family crumbles around her. From there Joon comes of age on the streets of New York, balancing on a tightrope between living and...
  • Mama Ruby
    Author:
    Monroe, Mary
    Summary:

    After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for...
  • Kafka on the shore
    Author:
    Murakami, Haruki
    Summary:

    Follows the individual odysseys of fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura after he runs away from his home and overbearing father, and Nakata, an elderly finder of lost cats fleeing a gruesome murder, as they both head to the randomly chosen...
  • Forbidden fruit : a Corinna Chapman mystery book 5
    Author:
    Greenwood, Kerry
    Summary:

    Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival. Corinna loathes the festival and the heat. She is a...

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