3.62 avg rating — 4,269 ratings

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"A young girl escapes her home/work as a clone/slave."

3.26 avg rating — 29,047 ratings

"Both the family father and mother fail to return from their travels."

3.83 avg rating — 16,888 ratings

"The parents of two girls have died and the girls decide to cover up their deaths and say they've gone away (that's not a spoiler, it's the premise)"

3.78 avg rating — 230,252 ratings

"A prince has been lost at sea."

3.54 avg rating — 13,389 ratings

4.06 avg rating — 1,820 ratings

"A book about the human face of displacement, including shocking scenes of unidentified refugees drowned at sea."

3.83 avg rating — 617,804 ratings

3.60 avg rating — 124,072 ratings

"One of the characters goes missing and is presumed dead... but there's something more to the story."

3.92 avg rating — 1,029,839 ratings

"Tom Sawyer gallivants about and people at home assume he's died."

3.88 avg rating — 2,425 ratings

4.12 avg rating — 68,658 ratings

3.88 avg rating — 274 ratings

"A woman runs away after a miscarriage and abducts a child."

3.97 avg rating — 2,900,159 ratings

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 144,585 ratings

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"The protagonist runs away from home to join a cult"

4.30 avg rating — 588,686 ratings

"Maya Angelou briefly describes having run away from home and being homeless"

3.97 avg rating — 1,841 ratings

"One short story in the collection depicts a world where children routinely get abducted. A mother tries to get her children back."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings

3.97 avg rating — 1,100 ratings

4.23 avg rating — 52,073 ratings

"A baby goes missing after its mixed up with a manuscript."

4.20 avg rating — 23,076 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 603,702 ratings

3.20 avg rating — 969 ratings

it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating

3.41 avg rating — 5,829 ratings

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2.95 avg rating — 1,002 ratings

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 205,367 ratings

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"Tsukuru Tazaki's friend mysteriously vanishes and he thinks it could be his fault but he isn't sure."

4.15 avg rating — 3,491,925 ratings

3.96 avg rating — 196,399 ratings

"Twins get lost at sea."

3.87 avg rating — 959,796 ratings

"Lolita is abducted/runs away from the protagonist."

4.04 avg rating — 1,259,107 ratings

"Esther is missing for several days following a suicide attempt."

3.89 avg rating — 1,611,958 ratings

3.94 avg rating — 584,419 ratings

3.86 avg rating — 2,473,399 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 5,587,208 ratings

3.80 avg rating — 3,942,401 ratings

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2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings

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3.88 avg rating — 114 ratings

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3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings

4.10 avg rating — 13,401 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings