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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the author of The Flight Attendant.
Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that she’s a pariah, Emily’s taken to hiding out on the frigid streets...
Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that she’s a pariah, Emily’s taken to hiding out on the frigid streets...
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Be Kind: Books for School-Age Kids
Book Club Kits: Fourth to Sixth Grade Choices
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Stories of Resilience
Book Club Kits: Fourth to Sixth Grade Choices
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Stories of Resilience
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Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
6) Foreverland
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English
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On the day that her father plans to move out of the house, twelve-year-old Margaret runs away to live in an amusement park, where a mysterious boy teaches her the basics of how to get food and avoid security.
7) Dreamland
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English
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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) No more bows
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[2017]
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English
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A determined dog runs away from home after his young owner dresses him in one too many ridiculous bows, a decision that he questions when he realizes that life is better at his friend's side.
13) Alfie runs away
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Told he must give up his favorite, now too-small, shoes, Alfie leaves home, but not before his mother persuades him to take all of the things he might need while he is gone
14) A hundred horses
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English
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
20) Bud, not Buddy
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Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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