A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and good.

Tired of her terrible older brothers, Loula decides to run away to Africa, where she crosses a sandbox desert, paddle-boats across piranha-filled waters, and enjoys an African sunset with her mother's driver, Gilbert.

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.

Having grown up in a trailer park with an overworked mother and attention-deficit disorder, Robert Kelley, now eighteen, steals--and crashes--three airplanes before being caught.

A beauty contestant since she was three, Olivia, now thirteen, has begun feeling limited by her beauty but a shared journey with Danny, a boy struggling with his own appearance, show her she has choices and resources beyond her appearance.

Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally,...

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.

Nadie es un adolescente brillante pero rebelde que crece en Manitoba Cree. Viviendo en la pobreza extrema, intenta ayudar a cuidar a los niños más pequeños de la banda. Devastada por la muerte por ahogamiento de su prima pequeña e incapaz de superar su dolor, Nadie deja la banda. ¿Cómo puede encontrar su propio lugar en un mundo extranjero donde es abusada y discriminada y, por primera vez en su vida, completamente sola?

When Danny find himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, he makes use of the items in his backpack to get through the next few days and befriends a poetry-spouting mole.