I'm running away from home , " Eliza said . Eliza planned to ride off on her buckled bike , if she could get it going . " Great idea ! " said Francie . " We all need to escape our parents now and then . I still run away from mine often ...
A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this "brilliantly executed" New York Times bestselling thriller from a "master storyteller" (Providence Sunday Journal).
When Maisie reconnects with her estranged 22-year-old brother abroad while trying to save her family’s portrait studio, she uncovers a truth about her parents that changes everything.
What kid hasn't wanted to make their parents feel sorry for treating him badly?
Matt, a white quarterback from Montreal, Quebec, flies to France (without his parents’ permission) to play football and escape family pressure.
"We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. Maybe this is the kick in the pants we needed to do something completely different.
I was dizzy from the blows and he was still gouging away at my scalp with his pipe. He reached over me, opened my door and pushed me to the pavement. I collapsed on the asphalt in dazed astonishment as he drove off.
Itsy Mitsy has had quite enough of bedtime.
In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration of diverse global running communities from England to Ethiopia—9 countries, 72 host families, and over 3,500 miles of ...
"Can You Run Away from Sorrow?" illustrates not only the tremendous sacrifice of parents, but also their profound sense of loss—of their families, their country, their stability and dignity, and most importantly, of their own identity and ...