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The Runaways

4.11 ( 302 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Runaways
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The Runaways

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4.11 (302 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 2 June, 1988
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Description

Julia and Nathan have no friends to speak of. They're misfits of Mrs Henrey's class - awlays the last to be picekd for the team, and always without a partner. Then they discover a stash of money in a deserted house and suddenly, instant popularity seems just around the corner. But so is trouble, in the shape of the adults who start asking difficult questions. There is only one thing the pair can do now, and that is to run away!
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Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1988

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099596608
ISBN10 0099596601
Number Of Pages 256
Item Weight 140 g
Product Dimensions 110 x 178 x 15 mm
Publisher / Reseller Penguin Random House Children's UK
Format paperback
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If anyone is more on the wavelength of 9 - 11 year olds . . . I would like to know * Observer *
A fast-moving and totally absorbing adventure story * Books for Keeps *
The drawing together of two children has hardly been done better since The Secret Garden * Growing Point *

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Author's Bio

Ruth Thomas was born in Wellington, Somerset, in 1927. She received a BA Honours Degree in English and a Diploma in Education from Bristol University and went on to teach in a number of primary schools in the East End of London. Ruth began writing soon after she retired in 1985. Her first novel The Runaways won The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. This was followed by four further critically acclaimed novels including The Secret, which was televised by Thames Television. She died in 2011.

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