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.
Young Martin is joined by a horse, a bird, and a cat when he runs away from home to search for someone who will answer the questions his mother is too busy to answer.
Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
2007
Presents a critical edition of Mark Twain's classic novel, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and includes textual and explanatory notes, background information, profile of the author, and seven critical essays.
Twelve-year-old Patrick Condon assumes his brother John's identity and runs away to join the army in order to get away from his boring life in Ireland; however, as World War I erupts, the boy experiences much more than he expected.
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father and find his long-lost sister and mother, drifting toward the parallel odyssey of an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata.
When twelve-year-old Dave runs away from his grandparents' farm and makes his way through the Georgia mountains to rejoin his wandering father, he finds disappointment and a new appreciation for what he has left behind.
In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.
Charlie runs away to a secret place in the back yard because she feels that her parents do not love her, but her grandfather influences her to return home.
