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1) Lockdown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop. Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride. In five minutes, Reactor No. 4 will explode...
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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.
4) Execution
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Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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. Now, only Alex can stop him, but he must decide how far he will go -- and what he will sacrifice -- to stop his foe.
5) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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.
6) Solitary
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Alex Sawyer and his friends end up in even more trouble after being caught trying to escape from Furnace Penitentiary for young offenders, and they find themselves struggling to survive solitary confinement.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Blinded by heavy mist, a misstep causes Erro to plunge into a deep canyon where he is caught by one of the giants who is imprisoned there while Zak is plucked off the cliff ledge by a different giant--but the giants are not friendly, and while they are discussing whether to give the boys to the Alcatraz guards or turn them into lunch, Zak comes up with a way to escape either fate.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Teenagers Zak and his alien friend, Erro, are trying to make it across the Plateau of Leng before the rising sun reveals them to the robot guards of Planet Alcatraz, but suddenly mountain-sized crystals start rising through the desert sands, threatening to trap them in a circle with a giant scorpion--and the boys must figure out how to escape this series of hazards.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Caught by the guards, Zak and his alien friend, Erro, are taken to the Pit, one of prison Planet Alcatraz's most escape-proof features, where every movement causes the Pit to descend deeper--and somehow the two teenagers will have to figure out a way to climb the walls and escape.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the Earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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.
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Series
Escape from a video game volume 1
Description
Cooper Hawke and the Secret of Phantom Island is the greatest video game nobody has ever played. The treasure-hunting adventure was supposed to set a new standard for gaming. Then, just one month before its release date, it fell off the face of the earth. Now, for the first time, you get a chance to play the mysterious game - from the inside. As you outsmart enemies, solve puzzles, and explore the island's hidden areas, you'll discover that there's...
Series
Escape from a video game volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"One hundred villains will enter Grim Island, but only one will be crowned the Greatest Supervillain of All Time. Will it be you? The latest battle royale video game from Bionosoft promises a crazy cast of villains, over-the-top superweapons, and non-stop action. But when you get sucked into the game, you discover that Grim Island is home to something far stranger than a few costumed baddies. Young gamers control the action in this new interactive...