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41) Rope burn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time--on a brutal prison chain gang . Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades....
42) The Jackal
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The location of the glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth--and meets a male who changes everything forever. The Jackal has been in the camp for so long he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Trapped...
43) League of liars
Author
Publisher
G. P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
414, 14, 8 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four teens caught up with the illegal use of magic band together to devise the ultimate jailbreak"--
Ever since his mother was killed, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal--to see illegal users of magic brought to justice. People who carelessly use extradimensional magic for their own self-interest, without a care to the damage it does to society or those around them, deserve the worst kind of punishment as far as Cayder is concerned....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paolo the dachshund is trapped. Though he lives in Rome, a city filled with history and adventure, he is confined to a hair salon. Paolo dreams of the sweet life--la dolce vita--in the Eternal City. And then, one day, he escapes! Paolo throws himself into the city, finding adventure at every turn. Join our hero as he discovers the wonders of Rome: the ruins, the food, the art, the opera, and--of course--the cats" --
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Shojo beat edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While on the run, Yona and Hak head to Hak's hometown, where she attempts to heal her broken heart. However, she can't rest there for long once she discovers that Su-won may soon become king! What will Yona choose to do in the wake of this news?"--
46) Monster hunter
Author
Series
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Tokyo, Ren has met with three other teenagers who have the dragon birthmark, but the public has learned that the dragonborn exist and teams of hunters are searching for them--and not all of Ren's new friends are what they seem to be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Could you escape Alcatraz? You become the hero of your own adventure the moment you set foot on The Rock. Will your choices lead to escape, or will you be a prisoner for the rest of your days?
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ryan Quinn hopes his traveling days are over. The son of a United Nations worker, he's grown up in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa--everywhere but home. He's finally settled in New York and is making friends when his world is turned upside down. Ryan is blindsided when his father disappears and his mother is abducted. Left with nothing but questions, he soon discovers his parents have been leading a double life. They actually work with the...
50) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Lexile measure
1010L
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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kaya volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
53) Creed
Author
Publisher
Flux
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sentry Dance Pickett has watched, helpless, as conditions in the Andersonville Prison worsen. Southern belle Violet Stiles cannot believe the good folk of Americus would condone such barbarism. Confederate corporal Emery Jones found an unexpected camaraderie with the Union prisoner he escorted there. When they cross paths, Emery leads Dance and Violet to a daring act. Wrestling with God's harsh truth, they must decide: Who is my neighbor?
55) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark House volume 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
56) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
57) The Devil's own
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kerry Bishop was expecting danger, even unimaginable fear. She wasn't expecting Linc O'Neil. In a terrifying race to save nine children, Linc appeared to be exactly the kind of man Kerry needed: strong, ruthless and definitely too drunk to care about helping her steal a truck to get past the guards. Except that Linc is no hardened mercenary; he's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. And now he's their one chance for survival through fifty miles of...
Author
Series
Loner volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, and now the current occupant of a cell in the brutal and unforgiving Hell Gate prison. The Kid's crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down...
59) The keeper
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed." -- Provided by publisher.
60) The capybaras
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop--or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is. Until the day the capybaras appear. To the hens, the capybaras are too big, too wet, and too hairy. But it's hunting season, and the capybaras need somewhere safe to hide. So, the hens say they can stay, but they have to follow the rules. Can they? As the days pass, minds begin to change and new possibilities appear. Will...