The Runaways
by Ruth Thomas
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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.Tags
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read a sample in a 'treasury' and am intrigued... sort of a 'problem' novel but apparently richer, more serious, more original
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Ruth Thomas was born in Wellington, Somerset, England on January 4, 1927. She received degrees in English and education from Bristol University. She worked as a teacher until she accepted early retirement and started writing. Her first book, The Runaways, was published in 1987 and won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Her other works show more include The New Boy, The Secret, Guilty, and Hideaway. She died on August 25, 2011 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1987
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