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Amistad Novela juvenil Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Hispanoestadounidenses Novela juvenil Interpersonal relations Juvenile fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction Runaway children Juvenile fiction Runaways Fiction Runaways Juvenile fictionManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MANNovak, Ali
Summary: Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared, and when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NOVDessen, Sarah.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DESRobson, Laura Brooke
Summary: Scholarly and soft-spoken, seventeen-year-old Thea escapes from her mother's pirate ship and into the arms of a charming sailor whose betrayal forces Thea to reconsider her mother's lessons about surviving in a man's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROBSorosiak, Carlie
Summary: Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SORKraus, Robert
Summary: A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRAWilson, Helen J.
Summary: Follow along as Reggie uses his sense of mischief to elude Farmer Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Late Bloomer Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction CurCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Curtis 1999Funke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord". Welcome to the magical world of Venice, Italy, where hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FUNSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SkurzKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: 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 herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1967
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION KONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction KonigsburgCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KONGourley, Kashelle
Summary: "Sick of the pressures of pet life, one dog escapes to fulfill his true Lone Wolf destiny, but then he sees his owner with a new dog and feels unexpectedly jealous."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOUMartin, Ann M.
Summary: Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MartiGemeinhart, Dan
Summary: A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GEMLean, Sarah
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEAPatron, Susan.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION PatronEagle, Judith
Summary: While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, affectionately known as Pear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EAGDownes, Patrick
Summary: Little Angus wakes up angry, and decides to run away from home when his mother scolds him for being rude--but he is very soon lost, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOWGoffney, Joya
Summary: "Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career... After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOFLangreuter, Jutta.
Summary: "Brayden Bunny doesn't feel like picking up his toys or washing his whiskers. It'd be so much easier to live with his friends, so Brayden decides to give it a try. But every new home he visits come with a new problem: Missy Mouse's house is too messy, Benny Badger's house smells a little funny, and Fipsi Squirrel's house is too high. At last Brayden Bunny visits his Cousin Pepi. Everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LANAvi
Summary: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVISummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021