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Cozy Middle Grade Reads (SCPL-YS)
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"Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away...so she decided to run not from somewhere but to somewhere. That was how Claudia and her brother, Jamie, ended up living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art-and right in the middle of a mystery that made headlines."-- Page [4] of cover.
2) Dreamland
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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
3) Paper hearts
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Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with Alec Williams, a member of the band Heartbreakers, at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy. After uncovering a shocking family secret, Felicity begins a road trip to find her sister.
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
6) First love
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
10) Erased
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"Seventeen-year-old Anna searches for answers about her past while she evades the Branch with genetically altered boys Sam, Cas, and Nick"--
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Cade, seventeen, yearns to leave the border town of Tanner, Texas, and when a mysterious girl appears, broken and bleeding, on his family farm the two begin to plan their escape, unaware that a cartel boss wants the girl back.--
Cade yearns to leave the border town of Tanner, Texas. When a mysterious girl appears, broken and bleeding, on his family farm, the two begin to plan their escape. Cade is unaware of Jane Doe's past filled with drugs and...
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Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
13) Under the lilacs
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Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.
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"Getting into bed with the wrong guy can get you killed. Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangster ?Maddog? Palmieri, Bobbi Ricci concocts a misguided plan with Denny, Maddog?s ex-driver, a guy who?s bent on getting even with the gangster for the humiliating way in which he was sacked. Helping themselves to the gangster?s secret money stash, along with his Cadillac, Bobbi and Denny slip out of town, expecting to lay low for a while...
15) Beholding Bee
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In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.
17) Joey runs away
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After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.
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Set against a 1950's-era backdrop of James Dean billboards and jukeboxes blasting Elvis, Ellen Conford's classic road adventure follows fifteen-year-old Sylvie as she leaves her foster home in New Jersey chasing dreams of celluloid stardom. Sylvie soon learns, however, that life isn't like the movies as she ends up broke and alone.
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In England in 1346 Adrian has three problems: he is small for his twelve years, he is an albino, so people are suspicious of him, and his father wants him to be a scribe, while he wants to be an archer--but when he runs away to join his friend in the fight against the invading Scots, he learns that war can be a lot more complicated then he imagined.
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