Cast off : the strange adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram Broen by Yohalem, Eve 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books, 2015)

BTSB #: 973208 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 760

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Seafaring life - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Child abuse - Fiction Sea stories

Summary: Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-olds Petra, who escaped her abusive father's Amsterdam house in 1663, and Bram, a half-Javanese/half-Dutch boy, relate their adventures at sea after Petra stows away and Bram, son of the ship's carpenter, helps her disguise herself as a boy.

Clayton Byrd goes underground by Williams-Garcia, Rita 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2017)

BTSB #: P03755 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Blues musicians - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Grandfathers - Death - Fiction Bereavement - Fiction Family problems - Fiction

Summary: When his blues musician grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing the blues, Clayton runs away to New York City and its subway system to find his late grandfather's blues band. But on his underground journey through New York's subways, Clayton has a few things to learn.

Running out of night by Lovejoy, Sharon 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 588296 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.3 MG Lexile: 830 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: Journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom.

Strong as fire, fierce as flame by Kelkar, Supriya 

BTSB Prebound(Tu Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 512007 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG+ F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Runaways - Fiction Courage - Fiction Self-reliance - Fiction India - History|y1857-1858, Sepoy Rebellion - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Tanglewood terror by Scaletta, Kurtis 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2011)

BTSB #: 781263 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.4 6-8 Lexile: 710

Genres: Scary/Horror Stories Family Life

Subjects: Mushrooms - Fiction Family life - Maine - Fiction Brothers - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Horror stories Maine - Fiction

Summary: When a giant glowing fungus invades Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out how a Puritan town disappeared from the same spot.