runaway children

Seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith, having been left home to take care of her younger brother while her parents are on vacation, realizes that he and a friend have headed for the North Pole in an attempt to save Santa Claus from global warming, and, to make matters worse, the playmate's brother is Lila's ex-boyfriend and she has to rely on his help to make sure the children are returned home safely.

Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has a secret reason for distrusting society.

Tired of being told what to do, a young ghost runs away, but after a scary day, he decides that he is happier at home.

Fearing they will be sent from a loving foster home back to their abusive mother, three children hide out in a secluded spot on Oregon's coast, trying to find food and shelter.

Three Aboriginal girls, forcibly removed from their families in 1931 in accordance with government policy, and placed in camps where they were to be trained to work as domestics for white families, escape their captors and set out on a 1,500-mile journey across Australia, determined to return to their homes. Based on a true story.

Tired of his mother's shouting and the noise of the city, Peter runs away to a beautiful garden, where he stays until he finds a way to bring a part of it home with him.

A young girl fantasizes about the excitement and loneliness of running away.

Told in their separate voices, seventeen-year-old Peyton convinces eighteen-year-old Jace to drive her from a Florida wedding toward her Connecticut home with the intention of staying in North Carolina rather than face her parents' marital and financial problems, while both avoid the obvious attraction they have felt since they met at Christmas.

Alone in New York, sixteen-year-old Cat is determined to realize the dream she shared with her recently-deceased grandmother--to be a fashion designer whose line is sold in Bloomingdale's--but first she must survive the big city and avoid being stopped by her mother.