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61) The Truth Trap
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Winner of the California Young Reader Medal in the high school category and an ALA Best Book of the Year. Following the death of his parents in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Matt McKendrick runs away from his hometown with his small, deaf sister, Katie, to prevent her from being placed in an institution. Reaching Los Angeles exhausted and hungry, they take refuge in an abandoned theater. When Matt returns to the theater after an unsuccessful day...
62) Being Toffee
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2020.
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Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
63) Orphan eleven
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In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
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Lexi Ryan just ran away to join the circus, but not on purpose.
A music-obsessed, slightly snarky New York City girl, Lexi is on her own. After making a huge mistake--and facing a terrible tragedy--Lexi has no choice but to track down her long-absent mother. Rumor has it that Lexi's mom is somewhere in Florida with a traveling circus.When Lexi arrives at her new three-ring reality, her mom isn't there . . . but her destiny might be. Surrounded by...
66) American girls
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Fifteen-year-old Anna runs away to Los Angeles where her half-sister takes her in, but after spending days on television and movie sets, she learns LA is not the glamorous escape she imagined.
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2011.
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First edition.
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
68) Falcon wild
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"Thirteen-year-old Karma lives with her family at their raptor conservation center in Montana. When she has to take her beloved bird, Stark, the gyrfalcon she rescued, back to its owner, she's sorely disappointed. But things get worse when a car accident leaves her father and brother trapped. It's up to Karma--and a runaway boy named Cooper who ends up by her side--to survive the wilderness and find a way to rescue them"--
69) Plain killing
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When the Amish residents of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, refuse to discuss with the police the murder of a young woman who had left the community, it's up to Rachel Mast, who also gave up the Plain life and then returned to run a bed and breakfast, to bridge the cultural gap and stop a killer from striking again.
70) Let's get lost
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During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
71) A hundred horses
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
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Nadie es un adolescente brillante pero rebelde que crece en Manitoba Cree. Viviendo en la pobreza extrema, intenta ayudar a cuidar a los niños más pequeños de la banda. Devastada por la muerte por ahogamiento de su prima pequeña e incapaz de superar su dolor, Nadie deja la banda.
¿Cómo puede encontrar su propio lugar en un mundo extranjero donde es abusada y discriminada y, por primera vez en su vida, completamente sola?
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Français
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Entre les devoirs, les cours de piano, la troupe de danse et les exigences de sa mère, Raphaëlle n'a pas beaucoup de temps pour rêver. Jusqu'à ce fameux party o elle fait la connaissance d'Axel, un garçon mystérieux dont elle s'éprend aussitt. Elle ne pense qu'à lui et trouve mille prétextes pour aller le voir le plus souvent possible à son appartement, en ville. Alors que ses parents pataugent en plein divorce, Raphaëlle savoure chaque...
76) The convicts
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His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force thirteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
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2021
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“A high-speed story that will draw teens in and keep them turning pages until they reach the unpredictable and thrilling ending. A must for YA collections.” (School Library Journal)
A 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work nominee and a 2022 Edgar Award nominee, this timely, gripping teen novel is about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood
...78) Daniel's desire
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From the author of Feels Like Family, a Netflix Book Club Pick!
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys... five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys... five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's...
79) The maze
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Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
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The matchmakers of Harts Haven volume 1
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English
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"Pregnant and desperate, Victoria Worthington runs to the only place that's ever felt safe. For years she's been controlled, first by her crime-boss father, then by her ex-boyfriend. Donning a hand-sewn dress, a kapp and a new name, she escapes as Abby Martin to the Amish community of Harts Haven, where she spent happy summers with her grandparents. Taking a job as a maid at the local inn, Abby plans to repair her grandparents' abandoned house and...
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