Homelessness, Runaways & Poverty

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    • By: Marie Lu
    • Narrated by: Mariel Stern, Steven Kaplan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • What was once the Western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Meg Elison
    • Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science....

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    • The Smiler Trilogy, Book 1
    • By: Victor Canning
    • Narrated by: John Higgins
    • Series: The Smiler Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. "Smiler", wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park....

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    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q - until day breaks and she has vanished....

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    • Modern Tale of Faerie, Book 2
    • By: Holly Black
    • Narrated by: Renee Raudman
    • Series: Modern Faerie Tales, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and thoroughly enjoyable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love....

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    • By: Sarah Crossan
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Allison is in danger at home. Her stepmother has run away and her father is getting worse. So she runs away too and with no where to live finds herself hiding out, miles from home, in an elderly woman’s shed....

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    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Fourteen-year-old Terry has parents who never paid him much attention. So when they both disappear after one of their all-too-frequent arguments, Terry isn’t exactly eager for them to come home....

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    • By: Jessica Lewis
    • Narrated by: Kamali Minter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future....

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    • By: Suki Fleet
    • Narrated by: Hamish Long
    • Series: This Is Not a Love Story
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When 15-year-old Romeo's mother leaves and doesn't return, he finds himself homeless and trying to survive on the streets. Mute and terrified, his silence makes him vulnerable, and one night, he is beaten by a gang of kids, only to be rescued by a boy who pledges to take care of him....

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    • The Wolves of Forest Grove, Book 3
    • By: Elena Lawson
    • Narrated by: Heather Costa
    • Series: The Wolves of Forest Grove, Book 3
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Shifted Rule is the stunning conclusion to Elena Lawson’s number one best-selling wolf shifter series, The Wolves of Forest Grove....

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    • By: Delphine de Vigan
    • Narrated by: Serra Hirsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life....

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    • A Vow. a Risk. A Dilemma. A Murder. (They All Had a Reason, Book 7)
    • By: Michele Leathers
    • Narrated by: Brogan Werder
    • Series: They All Had a Reason, Book 7
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • The stakes have never been higher. The games are do or die. Cory’s life has become one big gamble, and he’s on a path he never intended to take. Cory must decide whether he's willing to risk his life to save his friends and the one he loves, or save himself.

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    • Dark Legacy Series, Book One
    • By: Margo Ryerkerk
    • Narrated by: Winona Owen
    • Series: Dark Legacy, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • My name is Sierra Reeves, and my life is built on lies. I’m not a regular girl. My telekinetic powers can flip the precarious balance between good and evil. On the run from those that seek to use me as a weapon, I seek protection from the magic-bearing marshal Gavin McLoughlin....

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    • By: Katharyn Blair
    • Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
    • Series: The Beckoning Shadow, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Vesper Montgomery can summon your worst fear and turn it into a reality - but she’s learned the hard way that it’s an addicting and dangerous power. One wrong move and you could hurt someone you love....

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    • By: Miranda Asebedo
    • Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Perfect for fans of Tell Me Three Things and The Astonishing Color of After, A Constellation of Roses is brimming with a magic all its own - lovable and flawed characters, an evocative setting, and friendships to treasure....

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    • By: Paul Zindel
    • Narrated by: Eden Riegel, Charlie McWade
    • Series: Pigman, Book 2
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-10
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • John and Lorraine happen to be passing by the Pigman’s abandoned house when they receive the shock of their lives: someone or something is watching them from the upstairs window....

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    • By: Simone Elkeles
    • Narrated by: Alexandra Marcuse, James Cavenaugh
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times best-selling author of the Perfect Chemistry series. To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico....

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    • By: Kate Ormand
    • Narrated by: Luci Christian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Flo lives an eccentric life - she travels with a popular circus in which the main acts star orphaned children with secret shape-shifting abilities....

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    • By: Malcolm Duffy
    • Narrated by: Ross Adams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Written with humour and heart, Sofa Surfer looks at what it means to be homeless. Fifteen-year-old Tyler's teenage angst turns to outright rebellion when his family leaves London for a new life in Yorkshire....

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    • By: C. Desir
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Seventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon (just "Gannon" to her friends) is invisible to almost everyone in her life....

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