Runaway (Paperback)
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Short Description for Runaway After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
Full description- Publisher: Ember
- Published: 10 April 2012
- Format: Paperback 250 pages
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- Categories: Fiction | Family | Family Issues | Social Issues
- ISBN 13: 9780307975973 ISBN 10: 0307975975
- Sales rank: 482,575
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Full description for Runaway
""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." "From the Hardcover edition."
