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Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen

Holly is on the run. With both of her parents dead (her mom died of a drug overdose), she was in a foster home. After having the father, the foster home father, flush her head in a toilet filled with a cleaning chemical, Holly ran away. She thought living as a runaway (she likes to be called a gypsy instead of a runaway) would be better than being locked in the basement and having to pee in a bucket. While on the run she still writes in her journal from school, and this is how we learn about her story. Her gypsy adventure teaches her a bit about herself and some of the hardships of being homeless. If you liked Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey, you will like Runaway. Although the two books have different story lines, they have the same journal format.