Books with title Runaway Slave

Greenhaven Press's History Firsthand series explores major events in world history through eyewitness accounts. Each volume compiles a variety of contemporary narratives and reminiscences, illuminating the topic from an array of perspectives. These personal anecdotes provide readers with a unique and valuable understanding of how people from different backgrounds confront and interpret their times. Each article is prefaced with a short introduction. Also included are a comprehensive introductory essay and chapter prefaces that place the accounts in context. Additional features of these anthologies include a chronology of significant events of the era, an annotated table of contents to aid readers in identifying relevant material, and a bibliography and index to facilitate further research.

Each book takes the form of extended interviews with six children/young adults who have had the experience specified in the title. The interviews are carefully constructed to cover both the emotional as well as the practical consequences. The aim is not to be sensational but sympathetic and informative. Extended endmatter provides advice, contact numbers and addresses. The text itself is in a question and answer format, recording as literally as possible the answers of the person being interviewed. Statistical information and questions to promote discussion are also provided. Runaway looks at six children who ran away from home and looks at their reasons and experiences. Excluded features children who have been excluded from school, and the effect it had on them.

'I never asked you to come down here but you came anyway. Have I turned you away? No. Are you being taken care of? Yes. What more do you want? ‘I want you to be my father,' Jeremy cried.Jeremy Broughton will do anything to find the father who walked out on him ten years ago – even if it means stowing away on the Picton ferry, or sleeping in a tiny forestry hut, or putting up with the bizarre behaviour of a loopy girl called Megan who has plans of her own.

For 17-year-old Hallie Romano, living the life of a princess was great, until her entire world was transformed by four simple words; do you trust me? Now, after witnessing a brutal murder carried out by a prominent mob boss, Hallie has to make a decision. Should she trust Jackson, her gorgeous lifelong friend or stay behind and deal with the implications of what she witnessed? Hallie finds herself haunted by the images of the crime as she flees in search of safety and freedom. Now feeling an emotional pain as she learns her father was part of the mob too, Hallie seeks normalcy in a twisted game of chase as she and Jackson uncover they are being hunted. Traveling around the world to exotic locations, Hallie and Jackson encounter numerous obstacles and dangerous situations. For Hallie, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is her growing attraction to Jackson. Can Hallie push aside her feelings for Jackson? Can Jackson continue pretending he isn’t in love with Hallie? Or worse, will they ever make a new life for themselves apart from the dangerous world they left behind?

Meet Sammy Smart in the first book of the Samantha Smartypants series. 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 hasn't thought it through that far. What she does know for sure is: 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?