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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
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Sam Krupnik volume 3
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Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
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"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the...
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When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
9) Beneath
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Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans--such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't have friends. He's never really cared for anything but the thrill of being underground and Pat. So it's no surprise to anyone--even Pat--that...
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Glittering Court volume 1
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Adelaide, a beautiful countess, poses as her servant to escape an arranged marriage and start a new life. She joins the Glittering Court, designed to transform underprivileged girls into upper-class ladies, to perpetuate her new identity. Her secret is safe until she meets the wealthy Cedric Thorn, who has a few scandalous secrets of his own.
11) North
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Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
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2016.
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First Edition.
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Nobody expects a runaway to hike on the Appalachian Trail.
Don Gallagher, 16, joins a migration of backpackers. They trek northbound in Georgia. Hikers nickname him Chuckaboo. Discontent motivates him. He won’t return home unless that skinhead couch potato—also known as Mom’s boyfriend—moves out.
Chuckaboo struggles to keep his background a secret. Money runs short. The prospect of hunger weighs on his mind. He falls in with a hiker named...
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[2003], c2002
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Widescreen format.
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Three Aboriginal girls, forcibly removed from their families in 1931 in accordance with government policy, and placed in camps where they were to be trained to work as domestics for white families, escape their captors and set out on a 1,500-mile journey across Australia, determined to return to their homes. Based on a true story.
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