From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 351
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: runaways [X], brothers and sisters, runaway children, siblings, newbery medal books, newbery medal, large type books, metropolitan museum of art, self-reliance, museums, new york (n.y.) [X], children's audiobooks, missing persons, runaways - fiction, chinese language, metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), domestic fiction
Refugees
Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: refugees, runaways [X], musicians, september 11 terrorist attacks, 2001, new york (n.y.) [X], afghanistan, runaway teenagers, new york (ny)
Runaway
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: models (persons), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, identity (psychology), new york (n.y.) [X], runaways [X], parapsychology, extrasensory perception, mystery and detective stories, runaway teenagers, child abuse, immigrants, frontier and pioneer life, historical fiction, murder, psychokinesis, homicide, horror fiction, runaway children, homeless persons, orphans, survival skills, diaries
Ten Mile River
Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: juvenile delinquency, homeless persons, runaway children, new york (n.y.) [X], runaways [X]
Breakfast At Bloomingdale's
Alone in New York, sixteen-year-old Cat is determined to realize the dream she shared with her recently-deceased grandmother--to be a fashion designer whose line is sold in Bloomingdale's--but first she must survive the big city and avoid being stopped by her mother.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
Oh Yeah, Audrey!
Months after the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Gemma Beasley and friends she met through her Tumblr page meet in New York City to celebrate the life and style of Audrey Hepburn and her famous character, Holly Go Lightly.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Little Peach
Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and getting lured into prostitution.
FIC
year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: family problems, african americans, runaways [X], drug abuse, prostitution, new york (n.y.) [X]
Serendipity's Footsteps
"One special pair of shoes, crafted in Germany just before the Nazis came to power, makes its way through time and around the world to connect a string of owners"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: shoes, interpersonal relations, runaways [X], down syndrome, people with mental disabilities, germany, new york (n.y.) [X]
Wonder Struck
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: american museum of natural history, families, diorama, deaf, people with disabilities, museums, runaway children, family life, runaways [X], new york (n.y.) [X]
A Room Away From The Wolves
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
FIC
year:
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Dos Ni?os Y Un ?ngel En Nueva York
Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), runaway children, self-reliance, brothers and sisters, museums, runaways [X], spanish language materials, siblings, spanish language, new york (n.y.) [X]