runaway children

A cranky mouse named Tip decides to run away rather than obey his mother, but he soon changes his mind.

Claudia Kincaid and her brother run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in order to teach their parents a lesson and embark upon a mystery involving a priceless work of art and the strange old woman who sold the piece to the museum.

Eleven-year-old Grady, planning to run away to join his best friend in California, finds his secret endangered by his new "friend" Burgess, the pest who moves in next door.

Discusses missing children including those who run away or are abducted by strangers or parents and outlines ways to prevent and cope with this increasing problem.

Case studies explore the reasons why teenagers run away from home, the dangers of living on the streets, where to find help, and coping techniques for staying home.

Claudia and Jamie run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and become embroiled in the mystery that is the toast of the New York papers--the question of whether the statue just donated by the grouchy art collector Mrs. Frankweiler is a real Michelangelo.

Thinking she has killed her half-brother, twelve-year-old Taf flees her abusive home and sets out to find her long-missing father and on her way from Idaho to Pendleton, Oregon, she discovers not only adventure and sorrow, but also a number of people who love her.

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 to herself.

Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.