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Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What is it like to fall in love through the bars of a prison cell? Elizabeth Greenwood spent five years investigating relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside. She profiled couples whose love through incarceration runs the gamut in terms of sexual orientation, race, and circumstances of their incarceration. A sort of Modern Love: Prison Edition, LOVE LOCKDOWN shows the authentic faces of the husbands and wives supporting...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Language
English
Description
Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
9) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs...
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Teens Thea, Coen, and Nova are rescued from a deadly planet, only to be taken prisoner on board a government ship and used as weapons in a sinister political plot.
11) T-34
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Russian
Description
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized... A place where dreams are paid for in blood."--Publisher description.
13) The sanctuary
Author
Series
Danny Hansen volume 2
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Serving time for murdering two abusive men, vigilante priest Danny Hansen must escape from prison after the woman he loves receives a threatening note and a box containing a bloody finger.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Follows the author's tragic childhood in 1980s Iran, which was shaped by war and her work as an anti-propaganda activist, efforts for which she was beaten and sentenced to death before a guard offered to save her if she would convert to Islam and marry him.
15) A Sentence Apart
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The U.S.A. imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world. Behind 2.4 million prisoners lies an infinite ripple effect of incarceration on the family and community. A Sentence Apart follows three stories of people coping with a family member in prison, attempting to bridge broken relationships, and diligently working to reverse the generational cycle of incarceration. Tenea is a high school senior whose father has been in and out...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members and their capture by the Japanese, followed by months of brutal captivity.
19) The red scarf
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Once, Russia was a place split between breathtaking wealth and desperate poverty. Now, as the country conforms under Stalin's violent rule, a young woman becomes a fugitive, and a storied hero turns into a living, breathing man.
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