1,001 Novels: A Library of America
Run Away Home (1997)
by Patricia C. McKissack
Mount Vernon, Alabama
Alabama: 20/20
Run Away Home is an actual children's book, not a YA Novel, which is refreshing in the context of the 1,001 Novels: A Library of America. The line between children's and adult fiction is actually thinner than the line between YA fiction and adult fiction. Literature is filled with children's books that have reached canonical status in the adult lit world, whereas YA fiction has provided many films and television shows with material for adaptation. Run Away Home is about an Apache boy who escapes from a train taking his people from Arizona to Florida, where they were held for several years in the late 19th century.
The young African American girl who finds him becomes attached, and the story, about the girl's father struggling to maintain his piece of land in the face of white resistance, is a familiar one.
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