Runaway

Name: Runaway
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ISBN: 9780375835223

ISBN-10: 0375835229

ISBN-13: 9780375835223

Edition: 2006

Authors: Wendelin Van Draanen

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"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. Runawayis a remarkably uplifting portrait of a girl still young and…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Childrens Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She currently resides in California with her husband and two sons.