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1) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
3) Red Cap
Author
Publisher
Lodestar Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Following the end of World War II, Ukrainian sisters Krystia and Maria reunite in a displaced persons camp, where they are falsely accused of collaboration with the Nazis and face interrogation by the Soviets for crimes they never committed.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
8) Prisoner 88
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
9) Airman
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Series
Great escapes) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of William Ash and the escape from Stalag Luft III German POW camp during World War II"--