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Author: Alexander Gordon Smith
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alexander Gordon Smith
ISBN: 9780374324919 0374324913 9781448729210 1448729211
OCLC Number: 268952961
Description: 273 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Alexander Gordon Smith.
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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.

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A Chilling Story!

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2010-04-21) Good Permalink

Alex is caught committing a robbery and is framed for committing murder as well. He is sentenced to life in Furnace Penitentiary, a maximum security prison located one mile underground. What Alex finds in Furnace is that a life sentence doesn't last long for most prisoners since they don't survive...
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