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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

5 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell." Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Loving, loyal, and fierce, Suki is Dell's own wolf--her protector. But who has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Greenwood, Sara

Summary: "With her older brother in prison, a young girl copes with the confusing feelings his absence creates"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Leavitt, Caroline

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEA

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

3 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADJ

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADJ

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADJ

Bright, J. E.

Summary: Three crooks have escaped from Prison Island. Can the cops catch them before they get to shore? Find out in this funny, action-packed adventure!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016

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Shabazz, IIyasah

Summary: "In Charlestown State Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares while surviving life in a place unfit for humans, Malcolm drifts through his days, picking fights with fellow inmates and avoiding his family. But when he's introduced to the prison library, Malcolm realizes that the key to his freedom was within him all along. Now his dreams are not just...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SHA

Doiron, Paul

Summary: "Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark. Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can't believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOI

Silber, Joan

Summary: "One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIL

Foxlee, Karen

Summary: Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FOX

Soontornvat, Christina

Summary: "A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man--the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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Bliss, Bryan

Summary: "Toby and Luke are best friends, bound by a goal of leaving their hometown for Luke's wrestling scholarship, but a series of events during their senior year will test their resolve"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLI

Brookes, Maggie

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BRO

Engle, Margarita

Summary: When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

Flanagan, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

Hicks, Faith Erin

Summary: "Azula continues her destabilizing campaign against the Fire Nation and her brother, Fire Lord Zuko. But after a failed attack on her latest target, Azula finds herself in a mysterious forest temple inhabited by a solitary monk...or is it something more mysterious? Azula must confront her past, and finally face her chance at redemption."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2023

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Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Summary: Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HAD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2018

Maas, Sarah J.

Summary: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MAA

Hering, Marianne.

Summary: When the Imagination Station sends time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth to a ship that is captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, they are befriended by James Forten, a free Black of Philadelphia, and help save the life of an imprisoned boy dying of scurvy. Includes a secret word puzzle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Hering

Ware, Syrus Marcus

Summary: Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners' Justice Day.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers/Seven Stories Press 2023

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Engle, Margarita

Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC ENG

Keneally, Thomas.

Summary: "Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

Summary: "Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki. When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf -- her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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Birtha, Becky

Summary: Children who have a parent in prison express their feelings of sadness, anger, worry, and embarrassment and suggest that talking to others and keeping in contact with the missing parent helps them deal with the situation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIR

May, James L.

Summary: "Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction May 2020

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