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2) Gem & Dixie
Author
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Cecelia Montgomery returns home but faces new challenges, including her mother's Presidential campaign--headquartered in Sweetbriar--and the effects of her fame on her best friend, Fiona, and boyfriend, Jasper.
5) Run
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Bo Dickinson is a seventeen-year-old girl from a bad family, but she is also over-protected, legally blind, Agnes Atwood's best friend--so when Bo calls in the middle of the night, desperate to get out of town, Agnes helps her to steal the Atwoods' car and the two girls go on the run, even though Agnes is not sure exactly what they are running from.
6) Paper hearts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.
7) Road tripped
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
8) Smoke
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
9) Num8ers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
10) Jump
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales sends Sylvie, a sixteen-year-old ballerina-in-training, in search of her runaway older sister amid strange happenings, such as a woman leaving a shoe behind while running.--
Julia Blake has disappeared-- did she run away, or is she in trouble? When a copy of their favorite fairy-story book arrives with a mysterious list inside, her sister Sylvie begins to see signs of her sister, and their favorite fairy tales, everywhere...
13) Leap of Faith
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Faith shepherds her neglectful, drug-addicted mother through her pregnancy and then kidnaps the baby, taking on the responsibility of being her baby sister's parent while hiding from the authorities.
14) The Sisterhood
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While searching for her missing sister, seventeen-year-old Lil nearly runs into Seven, a girl trying to escape flames that tore through the compound of the Sisterhood of the Light--and something worse.
15) We were here
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
16) Belle epoque
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.
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