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2) Lockdown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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.
5) Solitary
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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.
7) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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. Now, only Alex can stop him, but he must decide how far he will go -- and what he will sacrifice -- to stop his foe.
8) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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.