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English
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Convicted of a murder that took place twenty-five years ago, an innocent Rufus Harms secretly files an appeal with the Supreme Court, but the real killers embark a deadly campaign to ensure that the case will remain closed, eliminating all who could reveal the truth.
3) Sapphique
Author
Series
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.
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.
7) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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.
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Language
English
Formats
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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...
9) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
10) Noble warrior
Author
Series
Caged warrior volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mixed martial arts phenom McCutcheon Daniels is recruited to help the FBI but then he is disavowed by the government and abandoned in one of America's most notorious prisons.
11) Death sentence
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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.
12) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
14) Escape plan
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a structural security authority finds himself locked in the world's most secret and secure prison, he must use his skills to escape.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a "nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one" (The New York Times).
At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England. He arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow,...
At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England. He arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow,...
16) Fellside
Author
Language
English
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.
18) The jackal
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Presents a debut entry in a new Black Dagger Brotherhood spin-off set in an underground prison that is populated by thieving and murderous beings.
19) The forsaken
Author
Series
Forsaken trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.
20) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2000]
Language
English
Description
On the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary miracles have come to life through a gentle giant with supernatural powers that brings a senses of spirit and humanity to the guards and other inmates.
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