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E. L Konigsburg
(205,477)
Summary: 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.
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Call #: J F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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![Solace of the road [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53724@2x.jpg)
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Siobhan Dowd
(1,567)
Summary: While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
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![We were here [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53727@2x.jpg)
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Matt de la Peña
(3,196)
Summary: Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
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![Skate [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61425@2x.jpg)
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Michael B Harmon
(683)
Summary: Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father.
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![Desperate measures [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61751@2x.jpg)
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Laura Summers
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Vicky, her brain-damaged twin sister, and her delinquent little brother run away together to keep from being split up by the foster care system.
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![Runaway [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61768@2x.jpg)
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Wendelin Van Draanen
(4,422)
Summary: After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
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![See you around, Sam! [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63529@2x.jpg)
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Lois Lowry
(324)
Summary: Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she will not let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
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![Blink & Caution [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/65560@2x.jpg)
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Tim Wynne-Jones
(2,203)
Summary: Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
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![The hunted [downloadable ebook] / a mystery in Glacier National Park](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/69201@2x.jpg)
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Gloria Skurzynski
(131)
Summary: The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
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![From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/95924@2x.jpg)
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E. L. Konigsburg
(205,477)
Summary: 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.
E-AUDIOBOOK
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![From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/224665@2x.jpg)
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E. L. Konigsburg
(205,490)
Summary: 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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 0 of 1
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Christopher Paul Curtis
(107,216)
Summary: 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.
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Call #: J F CURTIS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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![Bud, not Buddy [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17440@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Paul Curtis (read by James Avery )
(107,217)
Summary: 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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F CURTIS
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/13415@2x.jpg)
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E. L. Konigsburg (read by Jan Miner)
(205,477)
Summary: 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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Cornelia Caroline Funke
(94,808)
Summary: 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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Call #: J F FUNKE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ann M Martin
Series:
Doll People Series
(3,697)
Summary: Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
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Call #: J F MARTIN
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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