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1) Zebra forest
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When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
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540L
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"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...
3) Prisoner 88
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In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
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Zita the spacegirl volume 3
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2014.
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First edition.
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Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in the third and final installment of the Zita adventures. Wrongfully imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita has to plot the galaxy's greatest jailbreak before the evil prison warden can execute his plan of interstellar domination!
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2017.
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"Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life changes the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly imprisoned for assisting in the crime. Ruby Clyde and her pet pig, Bunny, hide out during the robbery, and then afterward, terrified and very much alone, they find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery, solitary nun living in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch, and...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 7
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An anonymous diary is a mystery with handwriting that is difficult to decipher. It is filled with technical drawings and chemical formulas. Was the destructive explosion an accident or an act of revenge?
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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 when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the...
14) Ebb and flow
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A powerful story of betrayal, forgiveness and self-discovery. One summer, after a long plane ride and a rotten bad year I went to Grandma Jo's. Ebb and Flow is the captivating story of eleven-year-old Jett's summer back home on the coast after "a rotten bad year" in a new town. When his father went to jail, Jett and his mother moved away, and Jett quickly learned that fresh starts aren't all they're cracked up to be. He returns to spend the summer...
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On the run volume 2
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Fugitives from justice themselves, Aiden and Meg Falconer search for evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison.
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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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