Books with title Runaway Nest

What’s a seventeen year old guy supposed to do when his parents are constantly arguing and engaging in the divorce battle of the century?Drink beer.Relax by himself.Take a driver’s exam.Hang out with the only real friend he ever had, and is now falling in love with. Her middle name is trouble. Jason Sommers doesn’t want to end up like his parents --forever fighting about trivial matters--but with Oshi, a self-styled princess from the past, he has no choice. She gets under his skin in a big way.She’s a law to herself. In her eyes, she can do no wrong. She thinks she knows everything when she doesn’t.Is she real or is she a figment of Jason’s imagination?A driver’s license will allow him to run away from his parents, Oshi, and his problems. Oshi, however, is making trouble for him in the back seat and the examiner thinks the young driver is talking to himself. Will Jason ace the test and make good on his promise to run away for good?Excerpt:Frankly, Oshi was a devil. Seventeen year old Jason Sommers wasn't sure whether to love her or hate her. His safest bet was to tell her that he at least liked her. A lot. If he didn’t, she might lock him up inside a tree trunk, and there was no telling but that he might be there for hundreds of years. Oshi claimed she’d been stuck in one for two centuries, through no fault of her own. He didn’t believe her though. If she had been as mischievous then as she was now, no wonder the sorcerer had thought it was a good idea to give her some cooling off time. However, his notion of locking her away hadn’t worked. Oshi still got into everything. Luckily for Jason, she wasn’t with him now."Are you ready for your driver's test?" his father asked, keeping his eyes on the mid-afternoon traffic. Mr. Sommers navigated onto the I-5 ramp. Jason hoped he wouldn't be asked to jump onto the freeway during the practical exam. With Oshi at his side giving not so practical advice, he'd practiced and practiced driving the mini-van. But he was still uncomfortable with entering the freeway with other people on the passenger seat beside him. Normally Jason would have nodded but he figured the movement would have been wasted on his dad since the older man's focus was on the road. Instead, he said, "Yeah." He didn’t add everything would be fine—as long as Oshi didn't come along. She had a habit of throwing him out of kilter simply when she was around.She didn't look or act like an average seventeen year old. She twisted her midnight-black hair into two long braids and wore a leather headband woven with multi-colored beads. A real eagle feather jutted out from the band and her mid-knee dress was made of soft tanned leather. The kids at Woodlawn High thought she looked real cool as she acted out the part of a Native American princess, but Jason knew she was the real thing. And, he thought she had the hots for him. Which was ridiculous. He didn’t like girls. Your problems began when you started liking them. You couldn’t do anything wrong, or try as you would, right either. His mom and dad were living proof.Her name was interesting too. With a straight face, she claimed Oshoni meant 'Messing with Spirits'. Jason couldn't decide whether she was being serious or not. Most of the time, she wasn't and she seemed to enjoy getting him into mega trouble.4200 words

A planet in trouble. One boy destined to save them.Alex’s world is turned upside down the day he discovers a strange weapon in his classroom. Convinced he’s responsible for the death of a teacher, he flees. But when he stumbles upon a spaceship from another planet while on the run, he soon realises the police are not the only ones hunting him. Can he learn to trust an alien race in order to fulfil the prophecy? Join Alex on his sci-fi adventure that will take young readers to another dimension.

A runaway slave boy, the Underground Railroad, a land without shadows. Robbed of his emancipation by his master’s widow, a literate 14-year-old slave boy flees into the prairie. His journey crosses a territory ripped apart in conflict over slavery: stolen elections, printing presses thrown in the river, church houses nailed shut. But folk stories and campfire songs help him find conductors on the Underground Railroad. Slavecatchers dog his trail, but before the runaway can cross the river to freedom, he must first place his faith in an illiterate freewoman.

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 city's 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 can’t-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.

At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her parents, whose life and curious marriage she finally begins to examine; while in the third part of her story, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. The whole picture emerges only when all the pieces of the jigsaw are finally in place. The runaway of the disturbing title story is Carla, a congenital 'bolter', who has neighbourly fantasies that take on a frightening afterlife...Elsewhere, a stagestruck girl finds life is more Shakespearean than even she imagines; while Tessa, a young country woman with strange powers cannot foresee what will happen if she makes off with a plausible charmer. Munro's stories unravel layers of the past, and different versions of the truth: her characters learn that if you look too closely at anything - the past, the truth - it may crumble. Runaway is about the power and betrayals, and twists, of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes them more powerful and compelling than anything she has written. Munro is a magician with words, but also with layers of life and emotion.

In 1936 Oakland, California fifteen-year-old Ernest Ballard is part of the burgeoning middle-class families in the United States and has a firm black and white grasp of what he thinks is right. When Ernest’s mother, Millie, is mugged on the way home after work, he blames his father, Thomas, for not providing for the family and seeks him out. He attacks his father. When the dust clears, witness to the fight puts Ernest on an outbound freight to escape murder charges. Ernest agrees to go. What else can he do but runaway? Ernest encounters a mentor, revivalists, thieves, and communists. Runaway is a coming of age story of lies, tragedy, murder, redemption, hope and most of all the truth.

School is out and summer fun is in! When Kera catches Manny in a big fat lie, its sink or swim for their relationship. For Manny, it's sinking fast. For Kera, she's already swimming to shore to someone more interesting, Shane. However, when she learns that Shane is a runaway things get really hectic. Kera finds herself keeping secrets from Dymond and Porsha. When they find out attitudes start to flare! Will they be able to trust again? Has Kera finally had it with Manny? Or, is Shane a temporary fix to help her forget about him?