Describes the life of runaway youths, situations they are trying to escape, and programs that try to help them solve their problems.

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.

FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock travel to Virginia and Georgia in their search for a missing girl who has the ability to link telepathically with others, and, as they race to save the child, they encounter a vicious, controlling man known as Uncle Blessed who will stop at nothing to keep the agents away from his prey.

In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.

In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her life.

Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying.