Greenwood, Sara
Summary: "With her older brother in prison, a young girl copes with the confusing feelings his absence creates"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREFisher, Catherine
Summary: To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISAdjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Summary: "The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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Summary: "In Charlestown State Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares while surviving life in a place unfit for humans, Malcolm drifts through his days, picking fights with fellow inmates and avoiding his family. But when he's introduced to the prison library, Malcolm realizes that the key to his freedom was within him all along. Now his dreams are not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SHABright, J. E.
Summary: Three crooks have escaped from Prison Island. Can the cops catch them before they get to shore? Find out in this funny, action-packed adventure!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016
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Summary: "One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILFoxlee, Karen
Summary: Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FOXSoontornvat, Christina
Summary: "A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man--the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SOOBliss, Bryan
Summary: "Toby and Luke are best friends, bound by a goal of leaving their hometown for Luke's wrestling scholarship, but a series of events during their senior year will test their resolve"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLIBrookes, Maggie
Summary: "Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BROEngle, Margarita
Summary: When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGFlanagan, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2018Maas, Sarah J.
Summary: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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Summary: "Azula continues her destabilizing campaign against the Fire Nation and her brother, Fire Lord Zuko. But after a failed attack on her latest target, Azula finds herself in a mysterious forest temple inhabited by a solitary monk...or is it something more mysterious? Azula must confront her past, and finally face her chance at redemption."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AVAHering, Marianne.
Summary: When the Imagination Station sends time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth to a ship that is captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, they are befriended by James Forten, a free Black of Philadelphia, and help save the life of an imprisoned boy dying of scurvy. Includes a secret word puzzle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HeringWare, Syrus Marcus
Summary: Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners' Justice Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers/Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAREngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: "Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki. When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf -- her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: Children who have a parent in prison express their feelings of sadness, anger, worry, and embarrassment and suggest that talking to others and keeping in contact with the missing parent helps them deal with the situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIRKeneally, Thomas.
Summary: "Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMay, James L.
Summary: "Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction May 2020Towles, Amor
Summary: "In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the working farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother is long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett intends to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC TOWLu, Marie
Summary: Mara has fallen to the Karensa Federation's tyranny. Its destruction has unleashed Talin's worst nightmare: her friends are scattered; her mother held captive by the Premier; and she was forced to betray her fellow Strikers. Now she is the Federation's most deadly war machine: a Skyhunter. The link between Red and Talin may be weak, but it could be the only hope to salvage their past and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021