escapes

After getting kicked out of school for voicing opposition to the communist East German government, teens Hanna and Andreas hatch a plan to escape their country by swimming twenty-five hours across the Baltic Sea to democratic West Germany. In their quest for freedom, they will face icy waters, helicopter searches, stinging jellyfish, physical exhaustion, storms, and drowning.

"Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton were captured by the Confederate Army and taken to Libby Prison--one of the most horrific prisons ever run. Few ever made it out of the overcrowded, vermin-infested prison alive. But neither fear, nor darkness, nor squealing rats could keep Rose and Hamilton from freedom. They and other POWs would fight against the odds to attempt the largest prison escape in American history"--Provided by publisher.

Held captive by the dangerous baron Lassigny, Will Treaty and his fearless young apprentice, Maddie, must outwit the baron with the help of their friends from home to escape.

"A historical thriller based on real events follows the efforts of an 18th-century noblewoman who hatches a clever plan to rescue her condemned husband from the infamous Tower of London"--OCLC.

In the desert military camp of Bir Hakeim in 1942, with German Nazis surrounding them, Free French Officer Susan Travers spearheads a daring escape, leading her troop across dangerous minefields and enemy territory to reach their British allies.

In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.

"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake"--Provided by publisher.

"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake"--Provided by publisher.