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Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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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.
9) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
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.
10) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
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.
11) Death sentence
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to wars in Sudan and the orphaned refugees known as the 'Lost Boys'"--Provided by publisher.
13) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
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.
14) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
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.
15) The Holocaust
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the event known as the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
17) The Khmer Rouge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the atrocities committed in Cambodia's "killing fields" by the Khmer Rouge"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The teens are almost out of time...Alex and Wendy both love exploring Mount St. Helens. Wendy is outgoing and curious while Alex is a loner who likes to do things on his own. But when the long-dormant volcano suddenly erupts, Alex and Wendy must team up to save others...and themselves"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
I escaped volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen year-old Dae has been taught that his country's fearless leaders are like gods. Yet the painfully skinny boy can't help wondering if something is off, because all his family has to eat is watery porridge made from grass. Dae begins to dream of rebellion - of fleeing across the forbidden border into China to look for work. But can he survive the deadly crossing? Does he have what it takes to escape?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Zak, a human teenager from Earth Base Zeta, and his teenage Furling friend, Erro, stowed away on a military spacecraft they thought they were going to see a space battle--instead they ended up on the prison planet, Alcatraz, and now they are being pursued by the prison's killer drones through a jungle which may be just as deadly as any drone.
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