Prisoners

Almost Paradise

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Copies: 6

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson’s life changes the day her mother’s boyfriend holds up a convenience store, and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery nun who lives in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along, but Eleanor has secrets of her own―secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

Author:

Corabel Shofner

Lexile:

730L

After Innocence (2005)

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After Innocence tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:35

The Green Mile

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Hear this history-making serial novel - from cliffhanger to cliffhanger - in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph; all six volumes ended up on the New York Times best seller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over.

Author:

Stephen King

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

910L

Length:

13:52

Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Unabridged)

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Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel.

It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor.

Author:

Gennifer Choldenko

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

620L

Length:

07:51

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Unabridged)

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Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It's 1935 and 12-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that's home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone.

Author:

Gennifer Choldenko

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

600L

Length:

06:10