The Day I Ran Away

Holly L. Niner, Isabella Ongaro, illustrator, Flashlight Press Hardcover $17.95 (32pp), 978-1-936261-89-5

When Grace’s day turns from bad to worse, she decides to leave it all behind in Holly L. Niner’s sweetly uplifting The Day I Ran Away. Alternating voices and fonts in adult orange and youthful purple, Grace relates her experiences with dramatic humor as fun, colorful illustrations from Isabella Ongaro convey the wide range of emotions that allow Grace’s day to go from better to best with a little help from mom and dad.