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Author
Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Author
Language
English
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
3) Morgan's run
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
604 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Descendants volume 3
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When King Triton's trident enters the Isle of the Lost, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay devise a plan to find the magical object before Mal's wicked rival Uma can get her hands on it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S edition.
Physical Desc
29 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"In eighteenth-century Britain, children as young as seven were tried in court as adults for crimes such as picking pockets or stealing clothes. If convicted, they could be sentenced to death or transported to the then-perilous and isolated colonies of Australia, where life was often as difficult and dangerous as it was in Britain. But transportation also meant opportunity for the lucky few. 'Child Convicts' is about the lives of these young prisoners...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon." --
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
2011 Del Rey mass market ed.
Lexile measure
1180L
Physical Desc
355 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales, Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, encounter complications after the colony's governor, Captain William Bligh, is overthrown.
12) The fatal shore
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 688 pages of plates, 41 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) No escape
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For a former Marine sentenced in the year 2022 to a secret and remote prison island inhabited by society's most violent and feared criminals, there is only one thought that keeps him alive: escape.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Physical Desc
385 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas Keneally recounts the founding of the first penal colony in Australia in 1788. Drawing on historical documents and journals, he weaves the stories of a diverse, colorful cast of characters into a dramatic saga of the birth of a vibrant society in an unfamiliar land.
18) Black eagle
Author
Series
Jason Trapp volume 6
Publisher
Jack Slater
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Siberia in April isn't in any tourist guidebook. But that is where Trapp finds himself. It's cold, dark, and the vodka tastes like gasoline. After brawling with half a dozen corrupt Russian cops, he's taken to the infamous penal colony marked on maps as IK-29, but known to inmates as the Black Eagle. The guards are brutes, their prisoners little better than animals. It's hell on earth. And this time, he's on his own. The Agency has no knowledge of...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
A feminist send-up of the exploitation film genre that takes place in...