A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave.

In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.

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.

"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 goatherd, a man who lives simply but righteously, and...

"Connie the Cuddly Cat is feeling lonely, but all her AlphaPet friends are busy and have no time to play with her. Connie thinks that nobody cares for her and decides to run away. When the AlphaPets discover she's missing, they realize how lonely and sad she was feeling. Can they find her and let her know how much they really care?"--Prelim.

Tired of the way she is treated by her big sister, Dee Dee, and Dee Dee's friends, a little girl decides to leave home.

A simplified retelling of the story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.

Runaway Carolina is hiding out at Harmony Farm in 1964 trying to come to terms with the death of her father, mother and baby brother. She is holding her secrets close while the Harmonys patiently wait to hear her story. Then Russell, a troublemaker who lives in the foster home Carolina ran away from, secretly comes to Harmony Farm and Carolina thinks he is a friend. One night something so terrible happens that Carolina, desperate to stay, has no...

A Texas girl at the turn-of-the-century longs to be a cowgirl and ride in Wild West shows on her beloved horse Devildust.

Pippi, Tommy, and Annika have all kinds of adventures when they run away together.