The Runaway
by Ruth Morris
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Twelve-year-old Joanne Mitchell, an orphan, is shifted from one relative to another. Finally, when she can no longer put up with her ill tempered aunt, she takes an old horse and runs away, disguised as a boy. She roams around through many adventures until she finds a home.Tags
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Joanne Mitchell is an orphan who is sent to live with her aunt. The aunt makes Joanne work constantly on the farm and Joanne is miserable. She decides to run away and disguises herself as a boy. The book tells about her wandering in the Australian outback and meeting interesting characters like a drover and an aborigine. Eventually she is able to settle down with a family on a sheep station, but is frightened they won't want her when they learn she is a girl. In the end they do want her and she finally has a family.
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Peacock Books (26)
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- Original title
- The Runaway
- Alternate titles
- Runaway Girl
- Original publication date
- 1957
- Important places
- Queensland, Australia
- Disambiguation notice
- Do not combine with The Runaway by Gilbert Morris. Two different books; two different authors.
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, Hungarian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 5
