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Kids run away for many reasons; abusive parents, a bad environment, poverty, lack of love or respect at home. A few run away for adventure. Others hope to find a better life, but most discover that life on the street is cold, hungry and lonely. It's also a jungle of predators. The smarter - or luckier - kids usually find that no matter how bad things were at home, at least they had a bed to sleep in and a chance to really escape by going to school and preparing themselves to win life's battles. Most runaways are heard from again, days, weeks, even months later. But a few kids just disappear,…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2017Anubis · 198 pages · 9781547273225
- Ebook · English · 2011Anubis · 9780997799477
- Paperback · English · 2007Windstorm Creative · 9781590923580
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