Running Away


From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Itsy Mitsy Runs Away
Ladder of Years
The Skull
Under the Lilacs: A Picture Book About Sisters Building Forts in Nature for Children (Ages 4-7)
Small Pig (An I Can Read Book)
The Catcher in the Rye
Love, Sophia on the Moon
Beverly, Right Here
Little Rabbit Runaway
Leave Me Alone!
The Underground Railroad
The Marvels
Paper Towns
The Goose Girl by Shannon HaleHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingFrom the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgInkheart by Cornelia FunkeNumbers by Rachel Ward
Runaway
95 books — 32 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainWritten in Red by Anne BishopAll We Had by Annie Weatherwax
Best On The Run/Running Away Books
106 books — 69 voters
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Runaways in YA and Middle Grade Fiction
373 books — 46 voters

C. JoyBell C.
You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too. ...more
C. JoyBell C.

Megan Chance
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control. ...more
Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

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