Alexander Gordon Smith
1) Lockdown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
3) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace. Now, only Alex can stop him, but he must decide how far he will go -- and what he will sacrifice -- to stop his foe.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the Earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world.
5) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.
6) Hellraisers
Author
Series
Devil's engine volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Marlow Green is a high school boy in New York who is always in trouble for vandalism and acting out, until one day he stumbles into the middle of a battle with a demon, and learns about The Devil's engine--an ancient machine which can grant anything you wish for, in exchange for your soul.
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
8) Hellwalkers
Author
Series
Devil's engine volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After Marlow makes a deal with the Devil to get himself and Pan released from Hell, war breaks out and the friends have only each other, and hope, to combat demonic creatures and monsters.