runaway children

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 Rapids.

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

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 Rapids.

Longing to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, sixteen-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inhabitant.

Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesky young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.

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.

Adam, who sees the dates people will die and feels the pain of their deaths when he looks in their eyes, returns to London, and he wonders if catastrophe is coming when many people's numbers are in January 2027, particularly on New Year's Day.

In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-African-American town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

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.

Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft, sharing many adventures along the way.