<i>"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."</i><br><br>Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.<br><br>Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across the country--hopping trains, scamming food, sleeping in parks or homeless encampments. And we also travel with her across the gaping holes in her heart--as she finally comes to terms with her mother's addiction and death. <br><br><i>Runaway</i> is a remarkably uplifting portrait of a girl still young and stubborn and naive enough to hold out hope for finding a better place in the world, and within herself, to <i>be</i>.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
