Books with title The Runaway Train

Three unhappy kids who are stuck in the Nevada desert in 1951 think running away will solve their problems.Dani O'Donnell is stuck in the middle of the desert, in gruesome Rattler Springs. She knows the desert hates her, and she returns the favor in spades. All she wants to do is get back to California, but she and her mother are too broke to move. Just before her 13th birthday, Dani decides to run away. But before she can get anywhere, 9-year-old Stormy decides he's going, too. Now Dani must come up with money for two bus tickets.Dani and Stormy are busy earning money when Pixie moves to town. She is the strangest girl--and the biggest liar--Dani has ever met, but she's also rich. She wants to run away too, and she gets them the money they need. Now they each must face what running away will mean--and why they're really doing it.

Julia and Nathan have no friends to speak of. They're misfits of Mrs Henrey's class - awlays the last to be picekd for the team, and always without a partner. Then they discover a stash of money in a deserted house and suddenly, instant popularity seems just around the corner. But so is trouble, in the shape of the adults who start asking difficult questions. There is only one thing the pair can do now, and that is to run away!

This is based on a true story about a hen who ran away from the author's coop in order to lay a clutch of eggs in the neighboring garden. The author wondered what had happened to her pet hen and was worried that she had died! But three weeks later, much to the authors relief, the hen returned with a bunch of baby chicks! Story is written and illustrated by author Nina Struthers.

When Zach and Johnathan decided to run away and be on their own. Mike offered to help them, but he was not going. Carrying almost six hundred dollars, Mike's tent, and some groceries, they left their homes, leaving Mike to spread rumors as to where they were supposed to have gone. Actually, they camped out in the woods behind Mike's house at night and slipped through the door Mike left unlocked to eat and watch television during the day. Find out what adventures they had during the week they were gone, and how the police finally caught them. Did they gain the freedom they longed for?