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Books in the Running away Home genre:

The Battle of Life (1846)

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A story of love and self sacrifice set in a rural village. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield

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Two Little Waifs (1883)

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A seven year old girl and her five year old brother are left in Paris until called for. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer’s Comrade (1885)

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Huck and Jim, a fugitive slave, travel down the Mississippi. The Great American Novel. READ NOW.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): John Harley
E. W. Kemble

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Lob Lie-by-the-Fire (1885)

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John Broom is found under a bush as a baby and adopted by two maiden ladies. After running away to sea he at last returns home. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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The Arkansaw Bear (1898)

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Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

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Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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Nobody's Girl (1922)

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Born of a Hindu mother and a French father, Perrine is on her way to France to meet her curmudgeonly grandfather when both her parents die. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hector Malot
Illustrator(s): Thelma Gooch

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The Adventures of Remi (1925)

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Abandoned on the streets of Paris as a baby, Remi is raised by his foster mother until his foster father’s injury impoverishes the family and he is sent out on the roads as a travelling minstrel. After many adventures and making many friends, h... View More

Author(s): Hector Malot
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Juan and Juanita (1926)

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Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.

Author(s): Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1931)

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Chadwick Buford is an orphan who finds a home for himself and his dog Jack in the Kentucky settlement of Kingdom Come. He has many adventures during which he discovers his true parentage, fights in the Civil War and returns to Kingdom Come. Read onli... View More

Author(s): John Fox, Jr.
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Adventures of Perrine (1932)

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Daughter of a French father and a Hindu mother, Perrine is left on her own in Paris when her parents both perish on their way to see her curmudgeonly grandfather. Read online in French at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hector Malot
Illustrator(s): Milo Winter

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1932)

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In the 1840s a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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Aboard the Bulger (1935)

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Five children running away from an orphanage steal (or are stolen by?) a small ship and explore the Hebrides.

Author(s): Ann Scott Moncrieff
Illustrator(s): C. L. Davidson

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The Clockwork Twin (1937)

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Uncle Ben builds a clockwork boy so Adoniram will have a playmate, but Freddy discovers a real twin.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938
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The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

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When Edward Tudor changes places with poor Tom Canty, he never recks how difficult it will be to regain his place as Prince of Wales. This is the New Winston Treasure Shelf edition. It is larger-format on better paper, with new endpapers and differen... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Quito Express (1938)

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A baby stows away on the Quito Express.

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s): Ludwig Bemelmans

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Francie on the Run (1939)

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Bored while recuperating from an operation in the hospital, Francie decides to leave and walk home.

Author(s): Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

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Auntie Robbo (1941)

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Eleven year old Hector is an orphan living with his Auntie Robbo. When his long-lost stepmother shows up, they take to the road to escape her machinations. Written by a Scot, it was originally thought too unsuitable to be published in the United King... View More

Author(s): Ann Scott Moncrieff
Illustrator(s): Christopher Brooker

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Captain Kidd’s Cow (1941)

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When their houseboat is threatened a gang of boys hijacks it and sets out down the Mississippi as pirates. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Adam of the Road (1943)

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In this story of thirteenth-century England, Adam travels from St. Albans Abbey to Winchester to Oxford in search of his father, a strolling player. This is the first British edition. The type was reset, reducing the page count considerably. The... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942
Junior Literary Guild
Newbery Medal - 1943
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