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1) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Incarceron
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 600L
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.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
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...
4) Jude
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
960L
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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.
7) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
950L
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.
8) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Red Cap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
10) Death sentence
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
11) The power of one
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 37
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
"Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. Because there's no way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. There's no way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them ... dead"--Page 4 of cover
13) The Rig
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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 for Drake"--
14) Visiting day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1150L
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
15) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
During the early 1900s, a teenaged inmate's dreary life at Massachusetts's Sherborn Prison for Women changes for the better after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the production of the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance."