Conflict and Setting in" Runaway "

This book is awesome. If you feel as if you want to go into a different time and place. You should read this book. Just thinking about the title ,you can just imagine that this person is having a had life. The young girl in the story just can't take living the way she is living. The only way to get out of her horrible living conditions it to runaway. It's hard enough being in a foster home but than moving with a family that don't even want you. How are you going to leave a happy life with your new family that is always calling you a thief? Making you sleep in the laundry with a mat , a blanket and a bucket to use the bathroom in. It's just a hard life and she has a way of getting out of it.

The conflict and setting in Runaway. Holly is a young girl about 12 years old. Her mom died for overdosing on some drug. Holly is put into a Foster Home and than has to move in with the Bender's family. This family is really good at playing pretend.. Every time the Social Worker comes they make it seem like everything is all good but really its not. Holly loves dogs and will do anything for them. Everyday Holly goes to school and is having a tiny problem with the children there. Miss. Leone is her teacher that told everyone in the classroom about Holly"s past. The rule in the Bender's hold is that Holly has to catch the bus and come straight home. One day Holly just can't take living with this crazy family anymore. She gets on the bus and goes by her stop and she gets off at the very last stop. After that she was gone and planning on never coming back.

Holly has $13.00 and some change and a book bag full of food. Holly is good to go. She walks a couple of miles and sits in a fast food joint. As she was sitting there she was eating the food she got of the trash when she was at school. The manger of the place does not like her being there. Holly packets up her things and go on her way. She finds her a place to sleep, behind a bush. It's very cold and is lying right on the ground. She can't sleep because she is afraid that some animals are going to get her while she is sleeping. Holly only stays in each place for about 2 to 3 days. After a few day Holly leaves. Holly want to be a sea gypsy! The only way for her to be a sea gypsy is to get near the ocean. She is going from where she is now to California. The only way to get there with no money is to set a fire in a trash bin and than climb into the bottom of the Greyhound bus heading west. Where the people place there bags was were Holly slept ans stayed for about 18 hours or until they came to a stop. Holly is now in California. Where will this brave young little girl go next?