Kids on their own in Children's Fiction
The Great Good Summer by Liz Garton Scanlon
Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker
Keeping Safe the Stars by Sheila O'Connor
- Pub Date: 2012
- Grades 4-7 interest
- When their grandfather doesn't return home, the Star siblings decide to find him.
Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Jacobsen
- Pub Date: 2011
- Grades 5-8 interest
- Jack is left at a campground by his mother, and he tries to make it to his grandmother in Boston on his own.
Survival Strategies for the Almost Brave by Jennifer White
- Pub Date: 2015
- Grades 4-7 interest
- Liberty and her sister are left on their own at a gas station by their unpredictable father.
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Pub Date: 2006
- Grades 5-8 interest
- Holly runs away from a foster home and travels across the country on her own.
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
- Pub Date: 2011
- Grades 4-7 interest
- See also: Unusual Princesses
- When their parents, the king and queen, are declared missing, then dead, Celie and her siblings must figure out how to save their kingdom on their own--with some help from the magic castle.
Miss Ellicott's School for the magically Minded by Sage Blackwood
- Pub Date: 2017
- Grades 4-6 interest
- Chantel has never been very good at deportment, but that turns out to be a good thing when the sorceresses that protect the city disappear.
Sweep by Jonathan Auxier
- Pub Date: 2018
- Grades 4-7 interest
- Nan works as a climbing boy for a chimney sweep in Victorian London.
Most Perfect Thing in the Universe by Tricia Springstubb
- Pub Date: 2021
- Grades 4-6 interest
- See also: Animals
- Loah's mother is always away on research trips and a medical emergency leaves Loah on her own.
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