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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
2) Unspeakable
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Sawyer, a drifter whose easygoing nature hides a troubled past, returns to his hometown in Blewer County, Texas in an attempt to protect widow Anna Corbett and her young son from revenge-minded escaped convict Carl Herbold.
3) Hollow city
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
4) The keeper
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
6) The Bad Guys
Author
Series
The Bad Guys volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
7) Dragon run
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It is testing day, and twelve-year-old Al has scored a zero--but as he flees the cullers he begins to realize that being a zero actually means that he is a threat to the vicious dragons who rule his people.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inky's Great Escape follows a Houdini-esque octopus as he pulls his greatest disappearing act yet. Inky, worn out from his exciting life in the ocean, has retired to the aquarium. There he quietly regales his tankmate Blotchy with tales of his past adventures. Then Blotchy dares Inky to make one more daring escape: out of their tank . . . and the aquarium. Will Inky succeed?
9) Chickenhare
Author
Series
ChickenHare volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Night is falling on the frozen landscape as Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe find themselves on their way to be sold to Klaus, an insane taxidermist with a penchant for unique animals and enough emotional baggage to go on a very long vacation. With the help of two mysterious new companions, our fuzzy, feathered, and amphibious heroes endeavor to escape their dire fate. But they soon discover that might not be so easy when they get caught up...
Author
Series
Super Potato volume 7
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Super Potato's archenemy Doctor Malevolent has returned, and this time he has a plant-based plan to take over the world! Our hero will need all of his gigantic new muscles to defeat this leafy green menace.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes' ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for intelligence employees whose mental state poses a security risk to the government, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover who he is, and why he was placed there.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Examines how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane...
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc., in association with Morpheus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A conspiracy and a miscarriage of justice turn the gentle Edmond Dantès into an implacable agent of fate. Obsessed by vengeance and empowered by providence, the Count avenges himself on those who have wronged him-- but is this justice, or is this hubris? In the end, does even the Count know?"--Back cover.
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