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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Valor is arrested, she could not be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's sister Sasha is already serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape ... from the inside"--
2) Dead time
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren't for the fact that the man who framed Hank Fallon and murdered his family could be inside The Walls, Hank would never step one foot in that heinous helltrap--let alone go undercover as an inmate. But this isn't just another assignment. This is his chance for revenge ... Inside...
3) Eileen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
4) Incarceron
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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.
5) The Rig
Author
Series
The rig volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except forDrake"--
Author
Series
Prison healer novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen's place.
7) Sapphique
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
Author
Series
Runelords volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fallion's allies risk everything in an attempt to free him from a vast prison in a world brimming with dark magic, hoping he will be able to mend the strange and fantastic world he created by combining two alternate realities, and which now is under control by a creature of unrelenting evil.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Following the end of World War II, Ukrainian sisters Krystia and Maria reunite in a displaced persons camp, where they are falsely accused of collaboration with the Nazis and face interrogation by the Soviets for crimes they never committed. SoviaIncludes bibliographical references.
10) Mountain boy
Author
Publisher
Raintree Publishers
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how fourteen-year-old Thomas Zachary helped a group of escaped Union prisoners elude the Confederate soldiers in the mountains of North Carolina and make it to freedom.
11) King Rat
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wile to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things...
12) Inside
Author
Series
Bulletproof trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Released from prison after serving fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit, Virgil Skinner, to keep his family safe, agrees to help the California Department of Corrections stop a gang from taking over the state's most notorious supermax with the help of Chief Deputy Warden Peyton Adams.
13) Blood sisters
Author
Language
English
Description
Three little girls set off to school one sunny May morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead. Fifteen years later, Kitty lives in an institution. She can't speak, and has no memory of the accident that put her there, or her life before it. Nearby, Alison, a local artisan, struggles to make ends meet and to forget her past. When a job opens up in a prison as an art teacher, she takes it. Soon, though, she starts to receive alarming notes--followed...
14) Vendetta
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[English language version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his wife is brutally murdered by a criminal that he put away, Mason, a hard-nosed detective, let's himself be arrested for murder to get vengeance. Once inside the prison's walls, Mason discovers a whole new criminal enterprise those behind it would kill to protect.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.
Author
Language
English
Description
A thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fightingwith Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival Churchill was taken prisoner ... The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in...
18) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
20) Death sentence
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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