Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.

Henrietta Hickathrift is tired of living in an old age home. The people are boring, the food is dull, and there's nothing fun to do. So, on the morning of her seventy-fifth birthday, Henny decides to run away. With only L50 in her purse and all her belongings in a single suitcase, she takes a train to the seaside to begin a new life. That's where she meets the five children of the Good family who insist on taking her home for a proper birthday...

In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.

Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.

The search for Caleb, her grandfather's brother who simply disappeared one day 60 years ago, becomes for Justine a search for her own best life.

Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.

Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.

Elijah and Elisha, teenage twins who, along with their parents, have been recruited by the president to learn the truth behind strange mysteries, crimes, and unusual occurrences in the news, face a rigorous test of faith when their job takes them into a world of twisted reality.

A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.