The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

The Runaways-- six teenagers who have discovered their parents are super-villains--prepare to battle against their parents to save the world, and are betrayed by one of their own. The Runaways-- when six young friends discover that their parents are all secretly super-powered villians, they run away together and find strength in one another to overcome their evil legacy..