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Could you escape Alcatraz?

2020
Cast as a prisoner in the infamous Alcatraz Penitentiary, the reader's choices determine if escape is possible.
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The good luck girls

2019
"The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls--they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a 'welcome house' as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful forces, both human and inhuman, their only hope lies in a bedtime story passed from one Good Luck Girl to another, a story that only the youngest or most desperate would ever believe"--Provided by publisher.
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A girl called Genghis Khan

how Maria Toorpakai Wazir pretended to be a boy, defied the Taliban, and became a world famous squash player
2019
A picture book biography of squash player Maria Toorpakai Wazir of Pakistan who pretended to be a boy as a young girl and defied the Taliban in order to play her sport.
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Voyage to the metal moon

After stowing away on a spacecraft, Zak and his alien friend, Erro, did not expect to end up on the prison planet called Alcatraz, but here they are; their latest plan to escape involves stowing away on another spacecraft--unfortunately this one is only going to Alcatraz's nearby metallic moon, a prison just as deadly as Alcatraz itself.
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The pit of no return

Caught by the guards, Zak and his alien friend, Erro, are taken to the Pit, one of prison Planet Alcatraz's most escape-proof features, where every movement causes the Pit to descend deeper--and somehow the two teenagers will have to figure out a way to climb the walls and escape.
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The crushing crystals

Teenagers Zak and his alien friend, Erro, are trying to make it across the Plateau of Leng before the rising sun reveals them to the robot guards of Planet Alcatraz, but suddenly mountain-sized crystals start rising through the desert sands, threatening to trap them in a circle with a giant scorpion--and the boys must figure out how to escape this series of hazards.
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Prisoners of the poison sea

Captured by the sadistic guards of the prison planet Alcatraz, the two teenage friends, Zak, and the alien Erro, are placed in bottomless cages hovering over a sea of poison acid and if they fall asleep or lose their grip they will fall to their deaths--and Zak will need all of his ingenuity if he is going to figure out a way to save himself and his friend.
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Flaming fields of death

Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
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Attack of the drones

When Zak, a human teenager from Earth Base Zeta, and his teenage Furling friend, Erro, stowed away on a military spacecraft they thought they were going to see a space battle--instead they ended up on the prison planet, Alcatraz, and now they are being pursued by the prison's killer drones through a jungle which may be just as deadly as any drone.
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Escape from the Castle Ravenloft

"You have entered the mist-shrouded realm of Ravenloft, where you attract the attention of Count Strahd, who decides to make you one of his vampire spawn. After awakening to find yourself alone within the walls of Castle Ravenloft, you must figure out how to escape the vampire lord's Gothic lair before you are doomed to become his slave for all time. Keep your wits about you, cleric"--Provided by publisher.
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