Unicorn Club 4: Llila's Little (The Unicorn club, #4)
by Francine Pascal
Hoping to stop his parents' impending separation and keep them from getting a divorce, eleven-year-old Charlie runs away from their home in inland California and finds a ride to the coast.
A young runaway is welcomed into the arms of an affluent family after he takes on the identity of the family's missing son, Daniel, only to slowly realize that the family knows more about Daniel's disappearance than they are letting on.
In the quiet of a great garden, away from the noise and fumes of the city, Peter finds the peace and contentment that is missing from his home life. Yet just as summer turns to winter, so must Peter return home. But his paradise garden goes with him. A memorable story, with baroque pictures. Author lives in Australia. Ages 5-8.
Pusher (Large Print Edition) (Living Out Loud, #3)
by Denise Jaden
Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.
Under the shadow of his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Austin and his maiden aunt Ada nurse a wounded escaped convict in North Carolina during the summer of 1958.
Hansen and Gracie (Twicetold Tales) (Twice Told Tales)
by Olivia Snowe
In this retelling of the classic fairytale, Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange and helped them when faced with a witch. Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange, and prevented them from being adopted--so when the evil officials from the orphanage abandon them in the woods they set out to find a home of their own.
Runaway (Smallville, #7) (Smallville (Little Brown Paperback), #7)
by Suzan Colon
Big Bad and the Bored Canary (Big Bad Books, #1)
by Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco
Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until she is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss and forced to marry a violent, fifty-year-old man.
This is the fifth title in a thrilling adventure series about Sherlock Holmes' gang of street-urchin detectives.When Lady Mountjoy's diamond tiara goes missing, Polly, one of the maids, is accused of the theft. But Polly didn't do it. Discovered by the Baker Street Boys, out of a job and with nowhere to go, Polly begs them to help her - and so they find themselves with another mystery to solve. Wiggins hits upon a plan: why doesn't Queenie apply for the newly vacated job, infiltrate the house an...
Winner of the Edgar AwardThe #1 New York Times BestsellerPublishers Weekly and USA Today BestsellerMillions of Copies SoldQuentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Embarking on an exhilarat...
Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop, right up until the day Coop ran away from their home just outside Washington, D.C. -- now a year later he has received a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother, which will lead Pat on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious Community living beneath the streets of New York. After receiving a package with a cryptic message from his older brother who ran away from home the year before, Pa...