Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Bloomsbury Children's Books Call No: REALISTIC F MES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Bloomsbury Children's Books Call No: Fic Messner Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2009, c2007., Juvenile, Disney/Hyperion Books Call No: HIS FIC SMI Edition: 1st Disney, Hyperio Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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2012., Adolescent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Science Fiction Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Cover image Summary Note: 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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2012., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: HORROR Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Escape from Furnace Volume: 5.Summary Note: 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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2010., Adolescent, Molino Call No: FANTASY FIC FIS Edition: 1a ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Claudia, hija del Guardián de Incarceron, una prisión futurÃstica, quiere evitar un matrimonio arreglado y decide ayudar al joven preso Finn a escapar. Pero Claudia y Finn no son conscientes de que la cárcel esconde mucho más de lo que ven los ojos.
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2010, c2007., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: FANTASY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Incarceron Volume: bk 1Summary Note: 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.
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2010., Adolescent, FIREBIRD Call No: FANTASY F FIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Incarceron Volume: 1Summary Note: In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to esacape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
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2006, ©2004., Juvenile, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic Fic Morgenroth Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen year old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit.
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[2015]., Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: GN MYE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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-- Hashtagmurdertrending2018., Adolescent, Freeform Books Call No: MYSTERY F MCN Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: MurderTrending Volume: 1Summary Note: Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.
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2005, Juvenile, Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Young readers' cond Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
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2017., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
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1994,c1991, Juvenile, Puffin Call No: HIS FIC WIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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2011, c2010., Adolescent, Speak Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island while waiting for his case to go to court.
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By Avi, 1937-c2012, Pre-adolescent, Beach Lane Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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[2017], Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: HISTORICAL F CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC Crowder Genre: Historical Availability:4 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL F SPI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cammie lives with her father, the warden, in an apartment above the entrance to the county jail - so most of the mother figures she's got her eye on are inmates. There's a flamboyant shoplifter named Boo Boo, who dreams of hot fudge sundaes. And a sullen reformed arsonist named Eloda, who works as their housekeeper. Not ideal candidates maybe, but Cammie's nickname isn't Cannonball for nothing. She's a girl who decides what she wants and launches herself at it.
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[2017], Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FIC SPINELLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
