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1) Incarceron
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Series
Language
English
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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.
4) Nightshade
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
Alex Rider is sent by MI6 Special Operations to infiltrate a new and sinister organisation known only as Nightshade. He is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief, who may know something about the organization and their plans to attack...
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Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Language
English
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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...
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Series
CHERUB novels volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James is sent to their isolatated outback headquarters on an infiltration mission. It's a thousand kilometers to the closest town, and James is under massive pressure from the cult's brainwashing techniques. This time he's not just fighting terrorists...he's fightingfor his own mind." -- from P.2 of cover.
7) Visiting day
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
8) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
9) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
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Series
Thieves of shadow volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Commanded by the magical artifact known as the Dragon's Eye, junior con artist Callan and his friends are eagerly reaching the end of the epic quest that will finally free him from the Eye's sinister hold. But their final task is their most ambitious: sneaking into the emperor's private island prison and rescuing a man from a jail cell that has been locked tight for a hundred years. This impossible heist will strain the gang's unique abilities to...
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Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover the whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, leaving nothing but murder in their wake. Those who do not die become slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. Alex is a monster too. He is the only one who can stop Furnace but in doing so he could destroy everything. Is he the executed or the executioner? Who will die? All Alex knows is that...
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's cramped yet boisterous home. But when his father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system that targets the...
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Series
Rymworld Arcana volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Antares De La Vega is a natural born adventurer. He dreams of journeying across burning deserts, trekking through wild and uncharted jungles, sailing the farthest reaches of the seas--and yet, he's never even stepped foot outside of South Florida. But that all changes when strange creatures come leaping out of lightning bolts to kidnap him. Locked away in a secret prison in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, Antares meets fourteen-year-old...
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