num_pages: 245
description: "It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across the country--hopping trains, scamming food, sleeping in parks or homeless encampments. And we also travel with her across the gaping holes in her heart--as she finally comes to terms with her mother's addiction and death.Runaway is a remarkably uplifting portrait of a girl still young and stubborn and naive enough to hold out hope for finding a better place in the world, and within herself, to be .
language: English
title: Runaway
titlecomplete: Runaway
characters: Holly Janquell
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Survival, Abuse, Fostering, Adventure, Teen, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 4469
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Sunshine State Young Readers Award
category: Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Iowa Teen Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Truman Readers Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: YA
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers