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Van Draanen, Wendelin.  
RUNAWAY
New York : Knopf, 2006
IL 5-8, RL 5.0
ISBN 0375935223
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 Holly is in her fifth foster home in 2 years and she’s had enough. She’s run away before and always been caught quickly. But she’s older and wiser now­she’s twelve­and this time she gets away clean. Holly writes about her journey in the journal that an English teacher gave her, and keeps it with her all the time. Holly spills her story through tough, tender, angry and funny journal entries. She writes about everything from her mother’s death to her abuse at the hands of foster families. We follow Holly across the country and hop trains with her, scam food, and sleep in parks or homeless encampments. And we also get to travel across the gaping holes in her heart as she finally comes to terms with her mother’s addiction and eventual death.    (New Hampshire Isinglass Award Nominee, 2008-2009)
SUBJECTS:     Runaways -- Fiction.
                        Homeless persons -- Fiction.
                        Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Survival -- Fiction.
                        Diaries -- Fiction.
                        Diary fiction.

 
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