On the Run (21 page)

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Authors: Tristan Bancks

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C
O
NTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Cops

The Vacation

Vacation Haircuts

Chase

Within the Woods

The Dead of Night

The Bag

The Secret

In Which Ben Gets Caught

Culpam Poena Premit Comes

My Side of the River

Knife

Detective Ben Silver

Evidence

The Hunt

Notebook

Trapped

Hole

The Plan

Apricots

Think I Better Run

Into the Wild

Flesh and Blood

The Fugitive

Hope

Stuck

First Night

Tangled

Tempest

The End

The Wreckers

The Road

Dead or Alive

Hide-and-Seek

Last Stand

Life

Within the Woods

One Wolf

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

 

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Text copyright © 2015 by Tristan Bancks

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First U.S. hardcover edition, 2015

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Bancks, Tristan.

    On the run / Tristan Bancks. —First U.S. edition.

        pages cm

    First published in Australia by Random House Australia.

    Summary: Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister “on vacation,” and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.

    ISBN 978-0-374-30153-8 (hardback)

    ISBN 978-0-374-30154-5 (e-book)

    [1. Criminals—Fiction.   2.  Fugitives from justice—Fiction.   3.  Fathers and sons—Fiction.   4.  Conduct of life—Fiction.   5.  Family life—Australia—Fiction.   6.  Australia—Fiction.]   1.  Title.

PZ7.B21766On 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2014042435

eISBN 9780374301545

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