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Author
Series
Publisher
Unputdownable Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Bury your enemies, and bury them deep. John Milton thought he was done with Avi Bachman. The most dangerous man he's ever known has been incarcerated in Angola, the brutal Louisiana prison. Inmates rarely leave Angola. Once you go in, the only way out is in a box. But Bachman is no ordinary prisoner. He was an assassin for the Mossad, and he has favours to call in. Milton is in the Australian outback with an old friend and his flirtatious kid sister,...
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.
3) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
4) Incarceron
Author
Series
Incarceron volume 1
Language
English
Description
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence, or worse, hanging over his head.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces, human and...
7) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Alex Sawyer and his friends end up in even more trouble after being caught trying to escape from Furnace Penitentiary for young offenders, and they find themselves struggling to survive solitary confinement.
8) Fellside
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
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.
10) The enchanted
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
11) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.
Author
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It's the end of the 15th century, and your local castle is looking for a jailer. Do you want the job? Your charges will include all sorts of people, from hardened criminals to people with mental illnesses, and you won't be expected to treat them kindly. This new extended edition includes a castle timeline, a guide to spooky castles, and some real-life grisly stories."--Provided by publisher.
15) Missing daddy
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A little girl who misses her father because he's away in prison shares how his absence affects different parts of her life. Her greatest excitement is the days when she gets to visit her beloved father. With gorgeous illustrations throughout, this book illuminates the heartaches of dealing with missing a parent."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded Churchill. [He] arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough and they must wage a resistance, using their collective...
19) Born survivors: three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
20) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.
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