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Solitary: Escape from Furnace (Book 2) by Alexander Gordon Smith [Smith, Alexander Gordon] is a ya fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From School Library JournalGr 7-10–Alex Sawyer, 14, is in prison for a murder he didn't commit. He tried to escape the horrors of the underground prison known as Furnace in Lockdown (Farrar, 2009), and now he must battle the nightmare that is solitary confinement. The cells open from the top through a sort of manhole cover, and they are more like coffins standing on end than cells. Alex must fight the monsters and mutants that are his captors and tormentors, including the dreaded wheezers that have gas masks sewn to what should be their faces and the vicious rat and doglike creatures that spoiled their escape attempt. Alex's friend Donavan was thought to be dead, but as it turns out is part of the horrors going on in the infirmary. There are several disturbing episodes when Alex is alone with his thoughts in his cell, and his fatalism or depression leads him to contemplate suicide. The rest of this story is fast paced and packed with nail-biting scenarios, and the gross-out factor is high in many sections. Alex is coaxed into a leadership role by some of the creatures and his friend Zee, who occupies an adjoining cell, and through their attempt at another escape, discovers what is

Who reads Solitary: Escape from Furnace (Book 2)?

It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.

Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.

Author
Alexander Gordon Smith [Smith, Alexander Gordon]
Publisher
Faber Children's Books
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374324926
Category
ya fiction
Subjects
Children'S, Science Fiction, Young Adult

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