I didn’t tell you because I knew you wouldn’t believe me. Normally, I would have told her to eat dirt and die, but today I just couldn’t take it. Told me I had a face only my mother could love.
You want to know why I was crying at recess? That cat Camille is why. More than I have tears to cry, I miss her. I’d been scamming food, she’d been shooting up. You want a cinquain poem about a most embarrassing moment that actually happened to me? Okay, here you go: Like I can even remember ever being in a real restaurant. “Put your most embarrassing experience in the form of a cinquain poem.” What did you expect me to do? Write the truth? I knew you’d read them out loud and you did! How do you spell idiot? I spell it L-E-O-N-E.ĭid you like my little poem about spilling my milk in a restaurant? Stupid, I know, so give me an F, see if I care. Leone, but face it: You don’t know squat. You think writing will get me out of here? You think words will make me forget about the past? Get real, Ms. Well, I’m trying it, see? And is it making me feel better? NO! Giving me this journal was a totally lame thing to do. You think you know what I’m going through, you think you know how I can “cope,” but you’re just like everybody else: clueless. I’m trapped in here, trying to sleep under this sorry excuse for a blanket, and I’ve just got to tell you-you don’t know squat. Runaway is certainly one of the best young adult books of the year.” -The Sacramento BeeAvailable for purchase at:AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A Hudson BooksellersIndieBoundPowell'sTargetWalmartApple Books - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Google Play Store - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Kobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format) - Audiobook (Downloadable format) - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Libro.It’s cold. “Will grab readers from the first entry.” -Kirkus Reviews “Holly’s lively self lingers in the way the best characters do. Runaway is a remarkably uplifting portrait of a girl still young and stubborn and naive enough to believe there’s a better place for her in the world. But how long can this go on? It’s getting harder to avoid the truth-Holly is now homeless.
She is smart and resourceful, and she manages to make it across the country on her own. Holly has run away before, but this time she actually gets away-and what at first felt like an escape soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. This diary of a runaway girl and her search for a home celebrates hope, resilience, and happy endings as only Wendelin Van Draanen, the author of Flipped and other acclaimed novels, can.
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