Yuma Public Library

Runaway Carolina is hiding out at Harmony Farm in 1964 trying to come to terms with the death of her father, mother and baby brother. She is holding her secrets close while the Harmonys patiently wait to hear her story. Then Russell, a troublemaker who lives in the foster home Carolina ran away from, secretly comes to Harmony Farm and Carolina thinks he is a friend. One night something so terrible happens that Carolina, desperate to stay, has no...

Benny's friend accompanies the Aldens to the South Seas for a vacation on a supposedly deserted island where they find an unusual mystery.

"Connie the Cuddly Cat is feeling lonely, but all her AlphaPet friends are busy and have no time to play with her. Connie thinks that nobody cares for her and decides to run away. When the AlphaPets discover she's missing, they realize how lonely and sad she was feeling. Can they find her and let her know how much they really care?"--Prelim.

Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."

While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity

A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.

Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.

Ten-year-old Libby Aimes escapes her prison-like home by using a strange concoction of her father's, then tries to make her way to the boarding school of her dreams, aided by various people and animals.

When the daughter of the Queen of the Mischief Monsters runs away from home, it is up to Edward, Moongobble, Urk, and Fireball to return her to Monster Mountain--then start a new quest.

The Alden children have an adventure as they journey along with the Little North Railroad in two cabooses rented for the summer by their grandfather.