The runaways

By Thomas, Ruth

Publishers Summary:
Having found an enormous sum of money and been threatened with punishment by their parents for not turning it in to the police, gawky eleven-year-old Julia and her bad-tempered friend Nathan flee London for Brighton and the open countryside.

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ISBN
978-0-39732-344-9
Publisher
New York : Lippincott, 1989, c1987.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on May 1, 1989

Gr 5-8 At the heart of this contemporary survival-friendship story are two unlikely 11-year-old allies, one black and one white. Nathan is small, wiry, bad-tempered, and an avid reader; Julia is tall, clumsy, a whiner, and virtually illiterate. The forces that unite them are their shared status as outsiders, and more importantly, their joint discovery of a treasure trove of c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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