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2) Comeback
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Ria is rich, slim, pretty, popular. If you only knew her at school, you'd think she led a charmed life-and until recently you'd have been right. But her situation has taken a sudden, unfortunate change. Her parents' seemingly perfect marriage has broken up, and before she's had a chance to absorb the blow, her beloved father disappears in a plane crash. What's worse, rumors begin to surface that he may have perpetrated a multimillion-dollar investment...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Allie ha dado un giro terrible. Sus padres se pelean todo el tiempo, le está yendo muy mal en la escuela y, por si fuera poco, piensa que tal vez esté embarazada. Incapaz de enfrentar a sus padres, decide irse de su casa y tomar la carretera con su amigo Razz, un patinador profesional de skateboarding. Cuando un enfrentamiento pone a Allie en peligro, Razz y Allie deciden volver, pero pasan justo por el camino de un tornado. Para sobrevivir...
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English
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Description
Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
6) Saving Grace
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Evie was pregnant and forced to give up the baby. But she can't just leave the child with strangers, especially when she thinks the baby is being neglected. With her boyfriend waiting in the truck, Evie snatches the baby and convinces him to drive her to Montreal where she plans to start a new life with her child. But when the baby won't eat and she and Justin argue, she ends up alone in a small town. As the baby becomes sicker, Evie must decide whether...
7) Damage
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's an ordinary nightmare of a family trip until Theo realizes that the beautiful girl beside the hotel pool is his childhood babysitter-and his first crush. Theo hasn't seen Ronnie for five years, but when she invites him to go with her-and her toddler son, Zach-on a road trip, he leaps at the opportunity to ditch his parents and head to Hollywood. They've only gone a few miles before Theo begins to regret his impulsive decision. Zach cries nonstop,...
9) Foreverland
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Dreamland
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Language
English
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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) Let's Get Lost
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
The debut novel from Adi Alsaid, acclaimed author of Never Always Sometimes, North of Happy, and We Didn't Ask for This
Five strangers. 4,286 miles. One epic adventure.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia have only one thing in common: a girl named Leila. On a mission to see the Northern lights, Leila drives from Louisiana to Alaska, crashing into each of their lives in her absurdly red car.
From prom night disasters...
Five strangers. 4,286 miles. One epic adventure.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia have only one thing in common: a girl named Leila. On a mission to see the Northern lights, Leila drives from Louisiana to Alaska, crashing into each of their lives in her absurdly red car.
From prom night disasters...
Author
Series
Confessions (Louise Rozett) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rose Zarelli, self-proclaimed word geek and angry girl, has some confessions to make...
1. I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you?
2. I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who might be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine.
3. High school might as well be Mars. My best friend...
1. I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you?
2. I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who might be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine.
3. High school might as well be Mars. My best friend...
15) Crash
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent in the park. With her help, he tries to survive on the street and continue with school, despite the new challenges in his life.
Finding a safe place for them to crash at night is difficult, and panhandling for money...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Ria es rica, delgada, linda, popular. Uno pensaría que ella llevó una vida de encanto hasta hace poco hubieramos tenido razón. Pero su situación ha tomado un cambio desafortunado súbitamente. El matrimonio aparentemente perfecto de sus padres se ha roto, y antes de que ella tenga la oportunidad de absorber el golpe, su amado padre desaparece en un accidente aéreo. Lo que es peor, los rumores comienzan a aflorar acerca de que él pudo haber perpetrado...
Author
Series
Confessions (Louise Rozett) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Rose Zarelli is trying to improve her life, but can she really pull it off.
18) Glitz
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old orphan Ann Michelle runs away from her grandmother's house in Toledo, Ohio, with a new friend who is intent on seeking her own fame while the teenagers follow a hip-hop musician to New York City.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
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