Product Description: Thrown into solitary confinement for his failed escape attempt from furnace prison, Alex Sawyer struggles not to let the hellish pitch-black silence overwhelm him. Before another escape attempt is even possible, he must first survive the nightmare that now haunts his endless nights...read more

Product Description: Furnace Penitentiary is the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Alex Sawyer is the “new fish.” Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, he knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to death in the darkness at the bottom of the world...read more

Product Description: His second attempt to break out of Furnace Penitentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins ― a sinisterly dark nectar ― Alex becomes what he most fears: a superpowered minion of Furnace...read more

One morning fourteen-year-old Alex wakes up to find himself in the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country. Six months have disappeared overnight. The family at the breakfast table? Total strangers.And when he looks in the mirror, another boy’s face stares back. A boy named Philip, known as Flip. Unless Alex finds out what’s happened and how to get back to his own life, he’ll be trapped forever inside a body that belongs to someone else.Martyn Bedford’s debut novel for young adults is fearless and fast-paced, a riveting psychological thriller about a boy coming undone in the most extraordinary of circumstances.A Junior Library Guild Selection

His second attempt to break out of Furnace Penitentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins ― a sinisterly dark nectar ― Alex becomes what he most fears: a superpowered minion of Furnace. How can he escape when the darkness is inside him? In Death Sentence, Alexander Gordon Smith delivers one chilling surprise after another, as the terrifying underground odyssey of his hero takes a nightmarish turn. In furnace prison, how can you escape once they make you their monster? “FRESH AND FEROCIOUS . . . WILL HOOK BOYS WITH ITS GRITTY, UNRELENTING SURPRISES.” ―JAMES PATTERSON, AUTHOR OF THE MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES “FURNACE IS HOTTER THAN HELL AND TWICE AS MUCH FUN.” ―DARREN SHAN, AUTHOR OF THE DEMONATA SERIES “Fast-paced and packed with nail-biting scenarios, and the gross-out factor IS high.” ―SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL