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1) Finding Nouf
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Katya Hijazi novels volume 1
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A Palestinian P.I. investigates the death of a pregnant Saudi teenager in a mystery that offers “a fascinating glimpse into the workings…of Saudi society” (Publishers Weekly).
When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi goes missing, her prominent family calls on desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi to lead a search party. Ten days later, Nouf’s body is discovered. The coroner determines that she...
When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi goes missing, her prominent family calls on desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi to lead a search party. Ten days later, Nouf’s body is discovered. The coroner determines that she...
3) Mosquitoland
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"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
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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
...5) Sal
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"Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs, and a first aid kit from Amazon using credit cards she'd robbed. She read the 'SAS Survival Handbook' and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits, and shoot an airgun. And...
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
8) The runaways
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Pub. Date
2011
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303 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Perhaps adolescent boys have had better reasons to run away from home than young Sammy Moore, but Sammy might never have done anything about it had he not encountered the tramp named Lefty and his trained bull terrier. The appeal that life on the road with these two offers is one of continuous adventure, so Sammy heads west. Swept along through a trail of unfortunate events, Sammy finds himself as front man for a giant hunchback named Jake and his...
9) The weapon
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a young boy accidentally shoots a playmate with a pistol found in the rubble of a bombed-out building, he runs away from home and wanders the streets of postwar England. Ballistic analysis connects the weapon to the unsolved murder of a military officer ten years earlier. A gruff American captain, Mark Andrews, attempts to track down the missing gun and appease the boy's anxious mother.
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"In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla hasn't seen her momma since she was three--that's when Lulu left for Nashville to become a famous singer. Starla's daddy works on an oil rig in the Gulf, so Mamie, with her tsk-tsk sounds and her bitter refrain of 'Lord, give me strength, ' is the nearest thing to family Starla has. After being put on restriction yet again...
11) Orphan eleven
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In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
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Bewere my heart volume 2
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"Oz Adway is a rare breed: an accountant with a bad-boy side who also happens to be a wolf shifter working for the Interspecies Placement Agency. Bored with his safe-to-the-point-of-snoozing office job, he takes on finding a runaway orphan bear cub... Unfortunately, the young bear has taken refuge with "ordinary" human Lila Kai, who has no idea what's going on but will destroy anyone who tries to take the cub. But Oz is not about to let anyone jeopardize...
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Boxcar children volume 1
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The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather.
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When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
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2018.
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218 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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Twelve-year-old Lizzy Sherman believes there are signs everywhere that can help her keep her family safe, so when she begins helping a runaway girl her own age--a stranger to their small town in Maine--Lizzy hopes that she, too, can protect Lizzy's family.
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2012
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311 p. ; 24 cm.
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In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse....
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Yugo, an adventurous and brave young girl, runs away from home after being scolded by her father. She returns to the fantastical kingdom in the clouds to find her friends Lala and Uncle Bear. Just as they're celebrating their reunion, a crisis breaks out: all living creatures in the kingdom are shrinking! With the help of Potato's son, Mili, Yugo, Lala and Uncle Bear realise that the crisis can be resolved if they can only find the water's source....
18) Under the lilacs
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[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Jenny runs away from home because her mother and sister are too busy for her, but being independent is only fun for a little while.
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Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan. Although Jason was born in the US, it's hard to feel American now when he's terrified that his mother will be discovered -- and that they will be separated. When he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt...
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"The heir to the Land should be strong. Fierce. Ruthless. At least, that's what Beau's father has been telling him his whole life, since Beau is the exact opposite of what the heir should be. With little control over his future, Beau is kept locked away, just another pawn in his father's quest for ultimate power. That is, until Beau meets a girl who shows him the secrets his father has kept hidden. For the first time, Beau begins to question everything...
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