Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADRiggs, Ransom.
Summary: Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other surprises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD-YA FIC RIGDahl, Michael
Summary: Zak Nine, his alien friend Erro, and another prisoner have found a small spacecraft and if they can dodge the missiles that the guards are firing after them perhaps they can finally escape from planet Alcatraz; but there is something wrong with the stars in front of them--they are not really stars at all, and now they find themselves confronted by Alcatraz's biggest secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHCalabrese, Keith
Summary: Seventh-grader Charley Decker's mother is on vacation with her boyfriend, and Charley plans to spend the weekend watching movies with her best friends Wade and Oona and her older brother, Greg; but Greg has a date and takes their mother's boyfriend's expensive, rare automobile, than manages to get it towed; Charley and her friends hatch a plan to get the car back--but things go seriously wrong...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCatanese, Elizabeth
Summary: Ben Baker would rather stay at home and bake than go to an amusement park with his dad, but when he finds himself in the Underworld with Persephone, he is determined to help her escape her uncle Hades by using his baking skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CATBartók, Mira
Summary: In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARPatchett, Ann
Summary: From the creators of Lambslide, comes a hilarious children's story about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's to blame when Mrs. Farmer's petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PATYolen, Jane.
Summary: While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YolenShaw, Janet Beeler
Summary: In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SHARiggs, Ransom
Summary: "The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIGDahl, Michael
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHDahl, Michael
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHLinke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINDoeden, Matt
Summary: An interactive World War II adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DOEChung, Arree
Summary: "When baby wants out of his crib, it's up to his faithful dog to keep him out of trouble"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHUAvatar, Ari
Summary: "Ari is just a regular avatar from Blockville who loves hanging out with his two best friends -- Zeke, an obby and parkour pro, and Jez, the ultimate hacker and Queen of Tech. When Blockville School's most annoying avatar dares Ari to enter the abandoned warehouse at the edge of town, it's Air's only chance to prove his bravery. The problem is there are rumors of a monster lurking in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2023
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Summary: Zak has been captured and sent to Planet Alcatraz's "Monster Zoo" where the inmates are forced to fight for the entertainment of the Overseers--but Erro is still free and he is determined to use all his Quom survival skills to rescue is human friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHBraun, Eric
Summary: An interactive World War I adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRAGunderson, Jessica
Summary: An interactive Civil War adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a Confederate prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GUNGuendelsberger, Erin
Summary: "Follow Inky the octopus as he escapes from the National Aquarium of New Zealand to the ocean! Based on a true story, Inky the Octopus chronicles the adventure that the real-life Inky might have taken on his escape to freedom in the open ocean!"--Publisher's website. Includes factual information about octopuses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2020
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Summary: A beautiful, simple, and deep book about how accepting others can enrich us all. Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is. Each one knows what she should be doing. They don't even seem to notice when every now and then one of them is carried off. Until one day some capybara appear. It's hunting season and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids/Greystone Books 2021
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Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX MELSorosiak, Carlie
Summary: Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SORWhite, Wade Albert
Summary: "In a magickal world of floating tiers, mischievous dragons, and endless bureaucracy, Anne and her friends embark on a Rightful Heir Quest to claim her place in the Hierarchy and escape horrible consequences"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016