Holly Janquell is a fugitive. Wendelin Van Draanan creates a twelve-year-old character in the story, Runaway, who is stubborn and naive enough to think she can live on the streets alone, until the age of eighteen. In the last two years she has been in five foster homes. He is in foster care because his mother dies of a heroin overdose. In her current foster home, she is abused, locked in the laundry room for days without food, and gets into even more trouble if she tries to fight back. Mrs. Leone, her teacher, could never understand her and, according to Holly, probably doesn't care. Nobody knows what he's going through, because he never opens up to anyone. One day Mrs. Leone gives Holly a diary at school and tells her to write poetry and express her feelings. Holly is disgusted. But one day, while sitting in the cold laundry room and extremely bored, she takes out her journal and starts writing. When Holly can no longer tolerate her current foster home, she runs, taking the diary with her. The entries in his diary are all written as if he were talking to Mrs. Leone, even though he will probably never see her again. Over the course of her journey, Holly learns to deal with her past through writing and discovers a love for poetry. At one point in this book, Holly stops venting to Mrs. Leone and starts talking to her, almost like an imaginary friend, and eventually opens up to her. The starting point of this book shows how much he hates Mrs. Leone and how much he complains about her. your current situations. For example, in one of her first posts, she talks about the time she got in trouble because she came home late from school. Her adoptive parents think she uses drugs, so they search her. Then they lock her in the laundry room. ... middle of paper ... going to KFC every year was better than roasting a real turkey. Even though his mother always opens a can of spiced peaches and a small can of cranberry sauce. Finally, Holly opens up completely to her imaginary Mrs. Leo. At the end of this novel. Holly eventually ends up with a family and lives a happy life. Her new mother had a diary of her own and lets Holly read it. After a while Holly decides to give her diary to her mother, Meg, to read. She's nervous because she thinks Meg will laugh at all the poems she wrote there. All Meg says to her is "I'm so proud to meet you." Meg gives Holly some advice. He says to send a copy of his diary to Mrs. Leone and to thank her for giving it to him. In a way, she can't help but think that the diary and "talking" to Mrs. Leone helped her get through some tough times..