runaways

While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.

When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.

"Wilderness adventurers and expert trackers Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg go camping with their families. When they discover that their katt and dogg cousins have run away together, the clever pair must find and warn their cousins before all four of them are in need of a serious rescue mission"--.

"When Nell Magnificent's awful parents go to Paris for a business trip, she surprises them by tagging along. But Nell isn't planning on hanging around. The city is hiding someone very dear to her. Someone Nell affectionately calls Pear. Somone Nell is determined to find. And so Nell runs away on an epic mission during which she befriends bellboys, camps out in the laundry rooms of luxurious hotels and races through underground tunnels and catacombs. All to discover that the mystery behind Pear's disappearance leads to an even greater mystery . . . one that might implicate the whole of Paris"--Provided by publisher.

Sick of watching his mother be abused by her boyfriend, thirteen-year-old Billy McKenna takes matters into his own hands and runs away from home. Taking refuge in an overgrown graveyard, Billy is helped by an older man who is cleaning up the cemetery. Meanwhile, as the police search for Billy, the neighborhood comes together to support Billy's mother.

"A boy escapes his troubled home to a bakery where the wizard makes baked goods tailored to each customer's whimsical fantasy. Owing to this magical place, he regains his speech and memory"--OCLC.

Roxanne does not feel she is ready to be crowned the Ruby Princess and assume the throne of the Red Mountains, but when she runs away she meets some friends who help her change her mind.

"In and out of juvie since he was thirteen, Ryan is running out of chances. This time, Ryan is determined to stay out for good. Being just a few months shy of eighteen means that next time he's picked up by the cops, he could end up in adult prison. But, after only a few hours on the outside, Ryan runs into his old crowd who are committing a break and enter. With nowhere to go and scared of being picked up again, Ryan goes on the run"--Provided by publisher.

After a judge sentences Miguel to spend a year in a group home and write in a journal, he makes plans to escape the youth detention center and go to Mexico, where he can put his past behind him.