runaway children

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runaway children

The outlandish adventures of Liberty Aimes

2009
Ten-year-old Libby Aimes escapes her prison-like home by using a strange concoction of her father's, then tries to make her way to the boarding school of her dreams, aided by various people and animals.

The Ruby princess runs away

1999
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.

Encounter at Easton

1994
The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania town.

Where are you going, little mouse?

1986
A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1967
Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

Bud, not Buddy

1999
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand R.

North

2004
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.

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