Runaway Life

Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside.

For 15-year-old Ricki, there's only one thing to know about her bounty hunter dad: he's never been there for her. But when her mother leaves, Dad suddenly appears and pulls her along on the road, hunting for criminals who've skipped bail. Ricki is sure she wants nothing to do with her father. She's much more interested in Ian Burnham, the 17-year-old skip Dad's chasing. Ian is confident and powerful and into her, everything that Ricki's family isn't. But Dad seems to think he can tell her what to do after all these years - and he says, stay away from Ian.

While serving school detention in the soup kitchen at St. Mary's Church, Sammy finds herself the prime suspect in the theft of Father Mayhew's ivory cross. But there have been other robberies at the church recently, and as Sammy attempts to discover the real thief, all the suspects appear to be religious figures who are above suspicion. That is, until Sammy cuts through disguises to uncover an enormous heist!

Voor Noa, Robbe, Kees, Dook en kleuter Tibbe is het elke dag broerdag. Ze zijn onafscheidelijk en het maakt ze helemaal niets uit dat ze niet allemaal dezelfde ouders hebben. Samen bouwen ze hutten en ravotten ze in het bos – en als een van hen in de problemen zit, kan hij rekenen op de rest. Ze horen bij elkaar, wat er ook gebeurt. Als Noa op een dag een paarse envelop ziet liggen met de naam van een advocaat erop, roept hij een broeralarm uit.

Quest One: Run Away Feet allows the listener to journey with Self-Elf as he steps into his fears, talks back to his thoughts, and uses his ability to adapt and get back on track when things don’t go as planned.

It's the school holidays in Snoops Bay, and Riz, Olly, Drew and Anton are looking for their next adventure. When they decide to visit the town's most unremarkable tourist spot, Bony Beach, they're shocked to discover a long-lost shipwreck that sunk to the bottom of the sea with treasure aboard. But their exploration of the ruin is quickly thwarted when they come face to face with the phantom figure of the ship's captain, Horatio Huxley, and accidentally put a curse on Snoops Bay. Undeterred, our heroes vow to get to the bottom of the mystery once and for all.

Richard feels lost. Born with drugs coursing through his veins, Richard's early years were filled with challenges. Bounced from foster home to foster home, he hides behind a worn comic book, dreaming of a place to belong. Then, a chance encounter with the world of fashion and modeling ignites a spark within him. Can Richard overcome his shyness and find his voice on the runway? Will he discover the forever family he's always longed for?

Paul Acampora makes his exciting debut in young-adult fiction with this poignant tale of a girl coping with the recent death of her father. When her mother moves the family to California, Dulcie decides to drive her father's pick-up truck back to Connecticut on her own.

After a tragic accident resulting in the death of his mother, and the disappearance of his father, young Davie flees his hometown of Blackburn, unsure of what the future holds. Devastated, he must escape the vicious rumours about his mother as well as his memories of her. With nothing more than the shirt on his back, he sets off to find his father, a livelihood, and maybe a glimpse of happiness.

Pangopup is convinced he is old enough to leave his burrow and see the world. When his mother disagrees, the naughty pup waits for her to fall asleep and sneaks away. Outside, he meets a mischievous Dik Dik who is eager to show him some fun. However, Dik Dik's idea of fun isn’t necessarily Pangolin proof and Pangopup finds himself in more and more danger as their explorations of the African landscape take them further from his burrow.

Raised in a family of circus performers, Helena's always dreamed of leading a more ordinary life. But when haunting music draws her into a strange and magical realm, one where anything can happen, her real life is stolen by a runaway from the other side. Helena must rescue the realm from chaos in order to win back her own not-so-ordinary life.

Kaj er 14 år og godt træt af skolen, som ikke siger ham en skid. Han bor alene sammen med sin far, Alvin, som er lastbilchauffør, og hans hverdag er præget af farens ofte meget firkantede holdninger til samfundet. Da det hele en dag bliver for meget, stikker Kaj af fra skolen og sniger sig med som blind passager i sin fars lastvogn. I Søren Vagn Jacobsens socialrealistiske ungdomsbøger om Kaj og hans far Alvin står det grå og ofte barske hverdagsliv i centrum.

Benito's father, Xavier, has been in Iraq for more than a year. When he returns, Benito's family life is not the same. Xavier suffers from PTSD - post-traumatic stress disorder - and yells constantly. He causes such a scene at a school function that Benny is embarrassed to go to back to Southside High. Benny can't handle seeing his dad so crazy, so he decides to run away. Will Benny find a new life? Or will he learn how to deal with his dad - through good times and bad?

Imagine your life is almost perfect. Then, on perhaps the happiest day of your life, everything that you hold dear is suddenly taken from you. You are also cast into an unbearable situation where you are tormented both physically and emotionally. What would you do? Would you be willing to risk everything to escape and find happiness again? What if all of this happened when you were only 13 years old? This is a story of heartbreak, struggle, redemption, love, and the resilience of the human spirit.

È il 16 ottobre 1943, nel ghetto di Roma un bambino di dodici anni vede la madre caricata su un camion dei tedeschi, la raggiunge, l'abbraccia, ma lei riesce a spingerlo via. Emanuele, questo il nome del bambino, si nasconde su un tram e inizia un viaggio che lo porterà, fermata dopo fermata, fino al capolinea. Racconta al bigliettaio di essere ebreo e chiede di essere protetto perché i tedeschi lo stanno cercando. L'autista del tram e poi altri dopo di lui aiuteranno Emanuele a restare vivo e al sicuro per tre giorni fino a quando non riuscirà a trovare suo padre.

घरच्यांशी भांडण झालं म्हणून दिपक घरातून पळून गेला. पण आता मात्र त्याला घराची आठवण येतेय. दिपकला परत त्याच्या घरी जाता येईल?

Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together - even though she's Jewish and he's black.

'Your Robin Hood thing. Let's do it for the Novel Project,' says Angie. 'Tell everyone?' I shrieked. 'Are you crazy?' Kelly thinks it's all over - her crazy effort to feed the poor. At first it seemed so right, but it became an obsession. And it made her do something so terrible her parents never spoke about it afterwards. Now her best friend is about to start the nightmare all over again...

When Michelle runs away from her drug-addicted mother, she has just enough money to make it to New York City, where she hopes to move in with a friend. But once she arrives at the bustling Port Authority, she is confronted with the terrifying truth: She is alone and out of options. Then she meets Devon, a good-looking, well-dressed guy who emerges from the crowd armed with a kind smile, a place for her to stay, and eyes that seem to understand exactly how she feels. But Devon is not who he seems to be.

Upon their upcoming 18th birthday, Kama's friends Jocelyn and Matthew gets a surprise visit from someone Jocelyn did not believe she would ever see again... her banished older brother. What starts out as a sweet visit ends in the most shocking revelation.