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Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked. Hannah and Zoe leave their New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and drug use.

Unappreciated by the boring and insensitive Crabapple family, a sweet, goofy dog runs away to find a new home with friends who appreciate her for who she is.

The people of Oak Grove have stopped up the creek that used to run through their town, because they don't like to be anywhere near water. Eli and Trevor McGill, called Eel and Trout for their fish-like quickness, don't fit in at all with their strange fondness for meals of raw tuna and seawater. Their best friend, Martha Glimmer, feels out of place too, heartbroken after her mother's death. Dreaming of escape, the three run away, but a flash flood forces them home again, to think about what woul...

William loves having a bedtime story read to him at night, but when his baby brother comes along his Mum and Dad are busy all the time. William goes in search of a new home, but soon discovers that it’s not easy to find somewhere that’s just right for him and his book: the ducklings’ lake is too wet; Little Mouse’s mousehole is too small; Little Wolf’s cave is too dark; and although Owl loves reading, his nest is much too high. As night draws in, there’s only one place he wants to be. This fun...

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.

Jean Ure returns with more warmth and wit in a brilliant book about what happens when two girls decide to run away from home. Fourteen-year-old Jade is fed up with fighting with her mum and step-dad, and her shy sixteen-year-old friend Honey is having a miserable time with her mum, but when Jade decides they should both run away, Honey isn't so sure. It's only when they get to London and things don't work out quite how they expected that Honey shows she has hidden depths, and...

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.

Fifteen-year old Mia lives with her dad in a small rural community. When she discovers that she's pregnant she doesn't know where to turn - her elder sisters have left home, her mum left when Mia was six, her boyfriend, Will, is too scared to be anyhelp and her dad tries to push her into an abortion. Backed into a corner, she runs away and joins two women on a canal boat. Nobody can find her now but she discovers that the women have their own tragic stories. A fire on the boat makes her realise...

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...

The fifth exciting adventure from the gorgeous series set in a glamorous pooch parlour, for animal-crazy girls who love dogs and looking after them. Animal-crazy Bella is so excited to discover the headmistress of her school has a dog and is desperate to catch a glimpse of the mysterious pooch. Bella gets a big surprise when her wish comes true and Mrs Frost brings Darcy to Dream Dogs, her mum’s trendy grooming parlour, for a pampering session. But there’s an even bigger shock in...

The second in the fab animal series set in a glamorous pooch parlour, for animal-crazy girls who love dogs and looking after them. The annual Sandymouth dog show is here and Dream Dogs pooch parlour is busier than ever! When two identical two bison frisés with very demanding owners come in to be groomed in preparation for the show, disaster strikes as the dogs get mixed up! Will Bella find a way of swapping back Sasha and Silky without their owners noticing? And w...

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.