Lockdown : escape from Furnace / Alexander Gordon Smith.

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Lockdown : escape from Furnace

Author

Smith, Alexander Gordon, 1979-

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.

Description

273 p. ; 22 cm.

Call #

FIC Smith

Summary

Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2009. 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.

Subjects

Prisons -- False imprisonment -- Escapes

ISBN #

9780374324919

ID #

1382525

Availability

Location	Call Number	Item Type	Barcode	Status
Steinway - Young Adult	FIC Smith	Adult Hard Cover	0228552241744	Available
Steinway - Young Adult	FIC Smith	Adult Hard Cover	0228552241793	Available
Flushing - Young Adult	FIC Smith	Adult Hard Cover	0228517092166	Available
Central Library Young Adult Room	FIC Smith	Adult Hard Cover	0228544327213	Available

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Summary/Annotation -> Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars.

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