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The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...
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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
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375 pages ; 21 cm
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"After Alice's older brother runs away at fifteen, the next she hears of him is that he's dead. Eight years after the funeral, Alice cleans out her childhood home in Georgia only to find her brother's autopsy report showing the many lies behind his death. She also discovers sealed, addressed letters he wrote shortly before he died. In a search for the truth, Alice delivers the letters to his closest friends, lovers, and enemies, each letter daring...
5) Runaways
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Marvel Comics
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Teenage fugitives Nico, Gert, Karolina, Chase and Molly are survivors. After learning their parents were secretly super-villains, the kids fight against their evil parents' organization, the Pride.
6) Cielo
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Laguna Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gabriel is a young man with a normal life until the tragic death of his mother. Constant fights with his sister and being abandoned by his brother lead him to run away. His life on the streets is much harder and more dangerous than he imagined.
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
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269 p. ; 24 cm.
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With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
8) Mosquitoland
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Listening Library
Pub. Date
©2015
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7 CDs (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mim lives in a medicated haze with her dad and stepmom in Mississippi. When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, she confronts her demons on a 1,000-mile Greyhound bus journey that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what itmeans to be sane.
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Criterion collection volume 1080
Publisher
Janus Films, Criterion
Pub. Date
[2021]
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2 DVDs (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm).
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In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers in Seattle. These two films together create a frank, empathetic portrait of lost youth.
10) Runner
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
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298 pages ; 22 cm.
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While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
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