Lockdown : escape from Furnace

Title
Lockdown : escape from Furnace

Personal Author EPSB
Alexander Gordon, Smith

Summary
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.

Year Published
2009-2010

Series
Escape from Furnace ;

Volume
1

Physical Description
290 pages ; 21 cm

Edition
First American edition.

Note (Local)
Young Reader's Choice 2012.

Reading Grade level
8.6.

Grade Interest level
7-12

Program Information
Gr. 9+
 
5.6

Awards
YRCA 2012 Senior Division Nominee

Subject
Prisons -- Fiction.
 
False imprisonment -- Fiction.
 
Escapes -- Fiction.

Genre
Science fiction.
 
Adventure fiction.
 
Adventure thrillers.

Summary
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.

ISBN
9780312611934

Publisher
New York : Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2010]
 
©2009


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