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61) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
62) Ebb & flow
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After "rotten bad year" on the mainland, eleven-year-old Jett returns to Newfoundland to spend the summer with his sprightly Grandma Jo (whose hair is dyed cotton candy blue to match her house), bringing along a shameful secret involving the betrayal of a friend. As summer unfolds, Grandma Jo nurtures in Jett his sense of caring for others while giving him space to breathe. Jett finds himself examining memories of his past like bits of sea glass-arranging...
65) Dog years
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
After his father is imprisoned, twelve-year-old Case switches to a new school, where he makes some important discoveries about friendship and honesty.
66) The boxer
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Having learned how to box while in prison, fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover if he can make a decent living as a fighter in late nineteenth-century New York City.
Author
Series
Werepenguin volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old werepenguin Bolt Waddle, washed-up pirate Blackburn, and plucky were-gull Gentoo help Annika the bandit to rescue her imprisoned father from the ruthless Earl of Sphen.
Author
Series
Newspaper Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to The Newspaper Club finds The Cub Report receiving unexpected national attention when Gordon's fast-thinking photo helps capture an escaped prisoner, a boon that is compromised by parental concerns about their kid reporters' safety.
70) Soulprint
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Alina's spent her seventeen years imprisoned for the crimes of her past self, as shown by soul-fingerprinting when she was a newborn, but when a group of people with questionable motives helps her escape, she discovers she may not be as innocent as she believes and must wonder if she's fated to repeat her past.
71) Guantanamo boy
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him.
72) Rikers High
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Waking up in a stark white room with no windows or doors, a 15-year-old boy, with the help of a computer-generated voice named Alice, tries to piece together his story, unable to tell what's real and what's not - and whom he can trust.
74) Do not pass go
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
76) The arc
Author
Series
Loop trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the final installment of ... [the] Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet ... [The] escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw[s] nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is destroyed"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After an injury, Black Diamond, a racehorse, is sent to a country prison where he forms a strong bond with the inmate assigned to care for him. Includes facts on programs that pair animals with prisoners who learn how to take care of them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As World War II draws to an end, Russian soldiers occupy Schwartz, Germany, bringing both friendship and hardship to the family of ten-year-old Fritz, whose grandfather was a Nazi sympathizer, eventually forcing them to leave their farm, then arresting Fritz's mother and her hired hand.
79) Bog child
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles, " eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
80) Kira
Author
Series
Shadow of the dragon volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
When war comes to the kingdom, Lord Dorcon and his knights take Kira's father, mother and brother, Dane, to the palace to serve the king. 12 year old Kira and her sisters go the Lasser Commons, the most notrious prison in the land. The crime of Kira and her sisters is that they aren't married. Kira and her younger sister, Elspeth escape. Kira will need every bit of her will power and the help of a baby dragon to protect the life of her sister....
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