Atwood, Margaret
Summary: In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ATWTwain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TWABersche, Barbara.
Summary: Follow Max, a rambunctious boy who feels misunderstood at home, as he sets out in a tiny boat, seeking new worlds across the sea and lands on the incredible island of the wild things--where being made king of the beasts may not be all that grand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERCarrasco, Jesús
Summary: "A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption--from one of Europe's bestselling literary stars. A young boy has fled his home. He's pursued by dangerous forces. What lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must cross in order to escape those from whom he's fleeing. One night on the road, he meets an old...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGraff, Andrew J.
Summary: "An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAPalmer, Daniel
Summary: P.I. Angie DeRose strives to save runaways. But Angie makes a life-altering discovery that will bring her past and present together with terrifying force.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, Llc 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Palmer 2016Komarnyckyj, Andrew
Summary: When Joe is accused of murdering his friend Ervan Foster, he flees the authorities and goes on the run, vowing to one day return as an adult, find out who the real killer is, clear his name, and avenge Ervan's death. While on the run, Joe has many funny, dangerous, and eye-opening adventures which include joining the Union army and fighting in the American Civil War. When the war ends, Joe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KOMSelznick, Brian
Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015