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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
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
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2015.
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
Pub. Date
2015
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.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen collectors ed.
Language
English
Description
A former pro football quarterback suddenly lands in a maximum security prison. Using fellow inmates, he must put together a motley group of cons to play a no-holds-barred grudge game against the sadistic guards.
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
Earl Swagger novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter's beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subject—a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula....
The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subject—a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula....
11) Ghostly prisons
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Describes the parts of a castle, how different kinds of castles were built, how sieges were laid, what dungeons were used for, and what daily life in a castle was like, and includes photos of castles in England and elsewhere as well as fantasy illustrations.
13) King Rat
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
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...
14) Blood sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
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...
15) Haunted prisons
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the events during WWII when the commander of the USS Sailfish torpedoed a Japanese aircraft carrier, which had on board several crew members of the USS Sculpin, the sister sub to the Sailfish which had been sunk just days earlier by enemy fire.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt—brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous 20 -day funeral that took Abraham Lincoln's body home to Springfield. A true tale full of fascinating twists and turns, and lavishly illustrated
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Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about ghosts in prisons. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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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...
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