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Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Savannah, a runaway six-year-old, is thrown together with two escaped convicts. Savannah's father offers a huge reward for her safe return, believing her to be kidnapped--a reward two fugitives with a police record will have a great deal of trouble collecting. Hiding out in an abandoned house, Savannah, Alvie and Boots find the strong bond of love and family they've never known before.
2) Jumper
Author
Series
Jumper novel volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Story of Davy, a young man, who discovers he has a power that sets him apart from others, teleporting.
3) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Series
Women of the West volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
8) Daredevils
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
1974: Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom window to meet her "Gentile" boyfriend. This time, however, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning at dawn and quickly arrange for her to marry the upstanding Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a "sister wife," Loretta dreams of another, better future, of a...
9) Standoff
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ambitious female television reporter Tiel McCoy gets caught up in a deadly hostage drama while investigating the kidnapping of a Texas millionaire's daughter.
10) Tess of the road
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tess Dombegh journeys through the kingdom of Goredd in search of the World Serpents and finds herself along the way"--
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. When Tess's family decides the only path for her is a nunnery, she chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gloria is a bored teenaged girl who meets a mysterious new boy, Uman Padeem, who is confident and charismatic--everything Gloria wishes to be--but when they disappear together for fifteen days she learns he is not all he seems, and soon truths about him and his secrets are revealed.
12) Gem & Dixie
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence. Even as Gem and Dixie have grown apart, they've always...
14) Father's day
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever. Based on his own graphic novel, a darkly comic, mind-bending fantasy.
16) Dirt boy
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
To avoid taking a bath, Fister Farnello runs away from home and is befriended by Dirt Man, a filthy giant who lives in the woods.
17) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, leaves a bad foster home in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
18) Family honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcée, and the owner of a miniature bull terrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents preconceived notion of what a detective should be. With the help of underworld contacts she tracks down the runaway Millicent, who has turned to prostitution, rescues her from a vicious pimp, and...
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a tornado destroys his Tulsa home, fifteen-year-old Carter Danforth is trapped in the pawnshop where his father hawked his custom, left-handed Martin guitar six years earlier before taking off, leaving him with nothing but a hankering to pluck strings and enough heartache to sing the blues. Carter's mother, meanwhile, is injured during the storm and winds up in the hospital. She wants Carter to fly out to Reno and stay with her sister, but he's...
20) Just pals
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Bim seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bill, a young teacher, Mary, whom Bim secretly adores, helps get the young boy into school. And when Bim then helps Mary repay a loan, defaulted on by shifty boyfriend, it becomes evident that Bim can reform.
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