Books with title Runaway slave

When Jenna Jordan's parents are killed on New Year's Eve by a drunk driver, she is placed in foster care with Nick and Emily Echols, and her nightmare begins. Emily is possessive, insisting on knowing every move Jenna makes. Nick is abusive, taking great pleasure in hitting Jenna. And his long list of rules are almost impossible for the thirteen year old to follow. After six months of misery, Jenna escapes by stowing away in the back of a pickup truck leaving one of the many Las Vegas conventions. She has no idea where she's headed; she only knows it has to be better than being trapped another day in the Echols home.

JR Ferguson has spent the past eight years hiding a troubling personal secret. When the secret is about t resurface, the 16-year-old runs away even though this means leaving behind her precious dog who is dying. Unfortunately JR is abducted from the streets of a big city and sold to a terrorist group who plan on sending her into Times Square with a bomb stuffed into her backpack. Can anyone stop the terrorists from blowing up JR and thousands of tourists in Times Square?

Mel Jackson has transformed his memories of growing up in rural Ohio during the 1950’s and 60’s into emotional and entertaining narratives permeated with family dynamics. Runaway is a heartfelt, gripping account of a young boy’s longing for the love of his father and the long journey he took searching for it. The father was a hard working man but an alcoholic who found it hard to show his family the love they needed. The story travels many miles, over railroad trestles and through back country roads, encountering various characters, both family and strangers. It ultimately led the runaway to being institutionalized in the Columbus State Hospital. Sometime later, the boy, later a man, found himself reflecting on times lost at his father’s bittersweet funeral. It’s a story of love, hate and forgiveness.

Runaway is an action drama. From beginning to end there is constant excitement with comedy and romance as the only breaks to the action. The drama portion of the story is so realistic that Runaway had been endorsed by the National Runaway Safeline in their school reading curriculum in schools throughout the country, which was unprecedented because it is a fiction action novel. The story starts off with two runaways leaving their violent and broken homes, with plans to survive with a long lasting friendship in New York City. Unfortunately, for the characters it does not go as planned and one of those characters finds himself very alone. He is soon adopted by a local street army whose toughest and most interesting member is a young female. As their relationship develops and grows so does the male characters relationship with his newfound gang, giving him new talents and abilities. All of the main characters begin to work on their personal vendettas and tie up their own loose ends, which become the entire citys vendettas and business. Most readers will love Runaway because they will care about and relate to the characters that are all very real to how young adults are like today. Runaway keeps the adrenaline up with its innocent and witty humor and constant excitement. Super adventure, great drama, fresh young romance, a fantastic cant-put-down action story to keep you at the edge of your seat. Just as the characters in Runaway live through and talk about their different abuses and problems The Teenage and Young Adult Survival Handbook directly deals with many of the important issues young people have to face today such as suicide, being children of alcoholics, suicide, child abuse, running away, neglect, self-esteem and bullying. The Teenage and Young Adult Survival Handbook lets its readers know they are not the only one with these problems, gives suggestions on how to cope and where to get help, and gives hope.

Kat Sanders is not your typical teenager - her parents died in a tragic car accident and she has spent the last seven years of her life moving from one foster home to the next. It seems like the minute she gets comfortable with one family, something bad happens and she has to pack up and move all over again. However, everything is about to change when she receives a letter from her sister Sophia - the only member of her family she has left - along with 400 pounds. Desperate to be reunited with her sister, Kat decides it is the perfect time to run away so she flees from her foster mother’s home and embarks on the journey to see her sister. On the way, she faces some of her toughest challenges yet and encounters a handful of negative and positive characters. But above all, she is fuelled by the things that keep her going - granola bars, her cat Macy, the power of love and her ability to never give up.

SynGen needs Breeders, females drafted into two years of human egg production for the benefit of rich, but infertile, inner worlds. Lani Nichols knows Breeders never come back, those promise of riches upon the completion of service aren't real. Unfortunately, faking her own death, disguising herself as a male, and getting off world is harder than it looks. When Lani signs on as an engineer to a scavenger vessel she hopes most of her worries are over. All she has to do is hide from SynGen's bounty hunters until the two years are complete and she will be free. Instead, she is plunged head first into the treacherous life of space pirates. Faced with betrayal, love and loss, Lani will do anything to survive.

Sámusa, Tal, Risai, and Kaliko are four strangers with one thing in common: they've all run away from their homes, and somehow found themselves imprisoned in the Crystal Palace. Princess Icilla of the North Side makes them a deal: embark on a journey to retrieve a powerful item, one of the three North Sapphires, from a wealthy nobleman who has stolen it from her, in exchange for their freedom.Although the four have the power of one of the remaining North Sapphires on their side, the task seems nearly impossible. In addition to traveling across the North Side on their own, they must deal with attacks from the noble army, as well as from three members of a mysterious clan who possess the third and final sapphire. Let alone the fact that these four misfits don't even get along! With the fate of the North Side on their shoulders, they set off on a journey that will change their lives. Unfortunately for them, however, the past always has a way of catching up with you, no matter how far you run...

Do you trust me? Those four, simple words would transform seventeen-year-old Hallie Romano's life.After Hallie and gorgeous, lifelong friend, Jackson, witness a brutal murder, she has to make a decision—should she trust Jackson and run away, or stay behind and deal with the fallout of what she has witnessed? Haunted by the crime, Hallie flees in search of safety and freedom.On the run, she attempts to seek some kind of normalcy while keeping one step ahead in a twisted game of chase where she and Jackson are the hunted. Besides the fact that her father is a mob boss who ordered the hit, the most difficult obstacle for Hallie to overcome is her growing attraction to Jackson.Will they ever make a new life for themselves and move forward despite the dangerous world they left behind?

Sammy is twelve years old and she knows it all. That's why she's better off leaving home and finding her own way . . . where? Well, she actually hadn't thought it through that far.But this she knows for sure: she can't stand Mum's new boyfriend. So she's out of there! But running away this time is not as simple as it used to be. She and best friend, Lucy, witness a burglary involving a family member, and she knows the consequences are going to be worse than just being grounded. Running back to the safety of home, their secrets put their lives in danger. Running away is not the happy adventure she'd imagined it would be! And just how much trouble is she really in now? Meet Sammy Smart in the first book of the Samantha Smartypants series. Growing up is painful; but family and friends can soften the impact!