Charlie's Run

By Valerie Hobbs

Book Overview

In running away from home, Charlie runs into more than he bargained for The night that Charlie Bascomb's parents announce that they are separating, he knows that even though they aren't saying that horrible word divorce, it's only a matter of time. He can't bear the thought of his family breaking up and decides that it's up to him to do something to keep his parents from making a terrible mistake. In the middle of the night, he creeps out of the house and into the darkness, determined to stay away from home for only a day or so, to scare them, to show them, to make them change their minds. But a chance encounter with another runaway, a girl with troubling secrets and a stolen car, leads Charlie farther from home than he'd ever intended to go. Soon Charlie begins to see that it is he who has made the terrible mistake, one that he may not be able to undo, and that there are far worse things that can happen to a kid than his parents getting a divorce.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374349940
• ISBN13: 9780374349943
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Charlie's Run

Loved this book and I am an adult.As a grandmother who has many books for my grandchildren to read ,I can feel free to have this book right out on the coffee table for them to pick up.It is good and I say good for the kids of today to read with all their mixed up feelings about devorce in their families. Am turning my copy over to the local library for other children to read and enjoy as we have after my family has finished reading it. Bravo Valerie Hobbs ! Keep these good books coming.