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.
Series:
Lockdown 1
Indexed by:
School Library Journal, February 2010 Booklist, February 2010 Horn Book, April 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2010 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2010
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