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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Series
Bad guys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
Author
Series
Will Tanner novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"U.S. Marshal Will Tanner is one hell of a manhunter. But this time, he's tasked with chasing six men across three states with one gun. He's supposed to locate them and wait for backup, but if he follows orders, they might get away."--
4) Poppet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Everything goes according to procedure when a patient, Isaac, is released into the community from a high security mental health ward. But when the staff realize that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm amongst the ward’s patients, and furthermore that he was released in error, they call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate, and to track Isaac down before he can kill again. Will the terrifying little effigies Isaac...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Hack Long and his outlaws break out of jail and split up to escape, they each find themselves scrabbling along a desolated landscape, heading for Texas to reclaim their stolen gold, while being hunted by lawmen, Comanches and violent gang who also want their ill-gotten gains.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in vain. The mayor...
8) Rope burn
Author
Series
Those Jensen boys! volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time-on a brutal prison chain gang . Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades....
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the winter 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.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The only way to escape the purgatory of the Florence Stockade was to die. So on February 3, 1865, Zebulon Hogan died and was buried in the prisoners' cemetery. It was young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave, who saw his hand clawing out of the dirt over the shallow grave. Zeb has a mission far beyond escape: he's sworn an oath to the other prisoners to hunt and kill a traitorous sergeant. Zeb's problem is that he knows nothing of the surrounding country....
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
474 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA Agent Nicole Rollins behind bars for murder, conspiracy, and gunrunning. But when Rollins makes a daring escape -- jeopardizing a busload of children and killing five officers -- Lucy becomes the key to the biggest manhunt in Texas history -- and the target of a brilliant...
12) Child of light
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the brilliant mind behind the Shannara saga comes an electrifying new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she's never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an ... unusual life. Since the age of fifteen, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children's...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973 with a young son, and her grandfather Popo, a gentle African-American astronomer. When Popo dies, Maya goes off the rails. Along with a circle of girlfriends known as "the vampires,"...
15) Runner
Author
Series
Sam Dryden novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 328 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal -- to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (2 hr., 39 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Es la historia de Edmond Dantès, joven marinero, quien el dia de ser nombrado capitan del buque El Pharaon y de planear casarse con su amada Mercedes, es injustamente puesto prisionero por traicion, por una conspiracion tramada por personas quienes le tenian celos y envidia. Despues de varios anos de prision en el Château d'If conoce a un sacerdote, el Abbé Faria, quien le impartio conocimientos y sabiduria, y le mostro el camino para un gran tesoro....
Author
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
451 pages ;. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York. The upside of being Mickey: he has never lost a capital murder case. The downside: Mickey has a lot of enemies, and one of them has just driven the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a sand trap at his exclusive country club. The cops, led by a gung ho but dim-witted detective named Joe Brady, focus their attentions on Virgil Cain. Just two...
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