Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
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...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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 when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. The wealthy dine and dance under bright orb light, while the poor toil...
Author
Language
English
Description
There's no place like home. Especially if home is the infamous Isle of the Lost. Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay haven't exactly turned their villainous noses up at the comforts of Auradon after spending their childhoods banished on the Isle. After all, meeting princes and starring on the Tourney team aren't nearly as terrible as Mal and her friends once thought they would be. But when they receive a mysterious invitation to return to the Isle, Mal,
...Author
Language
English
Description
Cammie O'Reilly is an unusual kid with an even more unusual home life. She hangs out with a flamboyant black shoplifter named Boo Boo, her housekeeper is a sullen arsonist named Eloda Pupko, and she lives above the entrance of a prison where her dad is the warden. Trying to cope with the death of her mother, who died saving Cammie's life, causes Cammie to become a depressed, angry tween, driven mad by her life in prison. The more Cammie tries to figure...
12) Stonewolf
Author
Language
English
Description
After three years in a barbarous orphanage, Nicholas is raised in near-isolation in a castle, where he is watched every moment, prevented from reading or seeing the outside world, and given "treatments" designed to retrieve some mysterious, forgotten bit of information from his brain. At the orphanage, all Nicholas ever knew was fear, silence, and hunger. He lay in wait in the bone-rattling cold, trembling, wanting nothing but to avoid Matron and...
14) Visiting day
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl, is still grieving her mother when her father takes a job in a museum located in a city where it never stops snowing. Ophelia is forced to suspend her disbelief in things non-scientific when she finds a boy locked in the museum where her father works. The boy, a prisoner of the Snow Queen, asks Ophelia to help him complete an age-old mission and save the world.
18) Fighting words
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.