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1) Monster
Author
Series
Language
English
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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
Language
English
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Description
In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to esacape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Language
English
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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) Sapphique
Author
Language
English
Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
Author
Series
Prison healer novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen's place.
6) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
7) The uprising
Author
Series
Forsaken trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Alenna Shawcross fights to stay alive after she discovers the secrets of the wheel where she has been exiled.
8) Zom-B family
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 9
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Now a prisoner of the most heinous survivors of the human race, B finds herself at the mercy of her enemies and discovers the fate of her parents and friend Vinyl, calling into question how much she is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice"--
10) Criminal
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Nikki's unconditional love for Dee helps her escape from her problems, but when he involves her in a murder Nikki winds up in prison, confronted with hard facts that challenge whether Dee ever loved her, and she can only save herself by telling the truth about Dee.
12) The power of one
Author
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.
13) 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.
Author
Series
Pandora hearts volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
A gothic fantasy with an "Alice in Wonderland" twist!
15) Lifers
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition, February 2017.
Language
English
Description
"Fear haunts the streets of Preston's city: a girl has disappeared. Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for his missing friend. And deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine used to banish teenage criminals for their offenses. Captured and condemned to a cavernous dimension, Preston is determined to escape. But this is no ordinary jail. Friendships will be forged and lives will...
Author
Series
Pandora hearts volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
During Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony, he is condemned for an unknown sin and banished to the Abyss, an unescapable prison, where he must discover the nature of his sin with the help of a mysterious girl named Alice.
17) The Rig
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"--
18) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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.
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