On the Run - Hardcover

"In this dynamic adventure, an overt tribute to My Side of the Mountain, 12-year-old Ben Silver, nicknamed "Cop" for his endless strings of questions, spends his days indoors, making stop-action movies about detectives and eating junk food.... Suspense and fear make Ben feel like he's living his own stop-action movie, and indeed his story has both the exciting pace and high stakes of a summer blockbuster." - Publishers Weekly

Ben has always wanted to be a cop, so he's intrigued when police officers show up at the door, asking for his parents. Then his parents arrive after the police leave and rush him and his sister into the car, insisting they are going on a vacation. Ben's a little skeptical—his family doesn't go on vacations. After they lose the police in a high-speed car chase and end up in a remote cabin deep in the woods, Ben discovers his parents' secret: millions of dollars were deposited into their bank account by accident, and they took the money and ran off. Ben isn't sure what to think. Are his parents criminals? And because he ran off with them, is he a criminal, too?