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Author
Series
SF masterworks volume 72
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Overview: Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered...
Author
Series
Descendants volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
6) No escape
Publisher
HBO Savoy Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
For a former Marine sentenced in the year 2022 to a secret and remote prison island inhabited by society's most violent and feared criminals, there is only one thought that keeps him alive: escape.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales, Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, encounter complications after the colony's governor, Captain William Bligh, is overthrown.
Publisher
distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1788, Mary Bryant, a starving young Cornwall girl, is convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to seven years in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. When Mary initiates an escape, she embarks on an arduous four thousand-mile journey toward freedom in a tragic and triumphant story that would make her one of history's most fascinating and courageous unsung heroines.--Container
11) The exiles
Author
Language
English
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
12) Morgan's run
Author
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Sexy, educated, and a convicted felon, Englishman Richard Morgan finds romance and adventure on a harsh, untamed continent in this historical saga of Australia's first settlers.
13) The secret river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH OVERALL BEST BOOK AWARD
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife, Sal, and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a whisper that freedom can be bought, an opportunity to start
...Author
Series
Descendants volume 3
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay take on the daughter of Disney villain Ursula the sea witch, in a race to save King Triton's magical trident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
Author
Series
I escaped volume twelve
Publisher
Best Day Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1836 in dirty, crowded London. Thomas and his little brother Jem are unfairly accused of petty theft. They're banished from England to a boy's prison in Australia! But first, they must survive a harsh journey by ship across the ocean to a remote island where conditions are even worse. When Jem becomes ill and is threatened by bullies, Thomas must protect his little brother. Against all odds, he must find a way home. But the prison is surrounded...
