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In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "oddities," including a dwarf and a cat-faced girl, holding himself apart from the "monsters" and resolving to be on guard against further
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Series
Veritas project volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Elijah and his sister Elisha go undercover to investigate a mysterious school that is sheltering runaway teenagers for a sinister purpose.
5) The maze
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Pub. Date
c1998
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198 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
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Pub. Date
c2007
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136 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Having spent his life trying to escape the foster care system, eventually becoming mute to keep out of trouble, twelve-year-old Newboy finally hits the streets, where a discarded ventriloquist's dummy gives him back his voice and his hope.
7) Runaway twin
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Pub. Date
c2009
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197 p. ; 22 cm.
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Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
8) Dreamwood
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"12-year-old Lucy Darrington goes on a quest to find her missing father in a remote, magical territory in the Pacific Northwest"--
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Angry with her mother, twelve-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boarding house in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she meets some interesting people and learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
10) The wolf keepers
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations, maps, ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying.
11) No more bows
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
When Milly puts a bow on her dog Hugo he feels embarrassed walking by the other neighborhood dogs until he finds out how much fun it can be.
13) The bridge home
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Series
Lost journals of Ven Polypheme volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Young Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City, a former penal colony in the land of Serendair, where he and his friends face kidnapping and even worse dangers from the ruthless Thief Queen, who is trying to reclaim her runaway daughter.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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314 pages ; 20 cm
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"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--
19) The Thief Lord
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Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
345 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
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Pub. Date
℗2011
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
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