![]() ![]() I didn’t look back to see what was behind us. Everywhere around me other kids were panicking, all bolting the same way, to safety. I forced myself to run faster, the metal staircase rattling beneath my clumsy steps. Just one more flight of stairs, one more and I might make it. If the siren hadn’t been hammering at my eardrums, then I’d have been able to hear my breaths, ragged and desperate, unable to pull in enough air to keep me going. I couldn’t even see where I was going anymore, my vision fading as my body prepared to give in. ![]() My lungs were on fire, my heart pumping acid, every muscle in my body threatening to cramp. Summary: 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. ![]() Lockdown : Escape from Furnace / Alexander Gordon Smith.-1st American ed. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Copyright © 2009 by Alexander Gordon Smithįirst published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited, 2009 ![]()
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