Books with title Ape Escape

Book One of the Alliance Series. What if everything you knew about the world around you was a lie, and the very people you were taught to fear were your salvation, your escape? Meet Amelia, raised in the safety of a Replenisher compound, a protectorate for the few Alliance females who can bear children. In two months, she will have to choose a mate and begin her duties, except it doesn't happen like that. When she witnesses a Zoriner boy fall over the wall of the compound, the very wall designed to keep those like her safe from those like him, the injured boy becomes her burden and maybe, if she lets him, her escape from the life she is meant to have, and the key to unraveling of the many secrets and lies on both sides of this conflict and each other. This is the very beginning of her journey.

Jess is angry at the world. Her family doesn’t spend time together anymore. Her brother is annoyingly good at everything. Her best friend is hanging out with a new crowd. After a humiliating photo of Jess is sent around Cape Henlopen High School—and the entire town of Lewes—her behavior goes from sullen adolescent to misbehaving teen. When her reckless behavior gets her caught up in a lie, her parents make her volunteer at Freedom Farm—an afterschool program where foster children take care of sick animals. Jess loathes the animals, the children, and the odors of the farm. But as she comes to learn more about the history of the volunteer program, she begins to find value in the rickety old farm and the people who make it their escape.

Four high school friends sign up for a TV escape-room competition, but they're assigned to a set that's actually a series of rooms. They have twelve hours to find a way out, but the faster they're able to do it, the higher their prize money will be. As the clues get harder and the time ticks by, tensions run high and confrontations occur. Soon the prize money isn't the only reason they're all desperate to escape.

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.

What if you suddenly had to leave your home, not knowing if you would ever see it again? What if you could take only what you could carry - on a bicycle? This is the true story of a thirteen-year-old boy who had to do just that. In 1945, near the end of World War II, as Russian soldiers marched toward the German capital of Berlin, people in villages, towns, and the countryside found themselves in the enemy's path.

A "maiden in distress" story for "tweens" and teens. Where is she? Why is she tied and gagged? Who are the strange people who refuse to answer her questions? What are they planning to do to her? When will she be rescued? A woman wakes up in a mystery. She has to use her wits and bravery to figure out how to get away from an impossible and confusing situation. With no one to help her and with many twists and turns, this mystery will keep you guessing right up to the startling conclusion. Ages 6th grade and up

It's 2424. Max Booth, an 11-year old resourceful orphan is struggling to survive. With the chance to make some money by uncovering the secrets of mysterious "gadgets" from the 20th century, Max and his faithful, but slightly neurotic, robodog Oscar start investigating. But the path to success is never easy, and there are sinister tricks, strange characters and lots of challenges along the way.

The year is 2045. Civil wars and foreign attacks have split the United States of America into three warring territories. You are from Turtalia, a young democracy. You were being held as a political prisoner in Dorado, an enemy state. With a cruel secret police force that controls its citizens by terrorizing them, Dorado is an evil territory. You were sent there on a spy mission to retrieve secret invasion plans. Now that you have broken out of the Doradan maximum security jail, you must find your friends and deliver the confidential plans to your government, back in Turtalia. Can you make it home from your secret mission? You might have the missing link to bring peace to this turmoiled time!

Trouble underground...Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are about to say good-bye to sixth grade--forever! But it's not over yet....The entire sixth grade is going cave exploring--spelunking! At first, Elizabeth is thrilled to roam through the Ice Cave with her friends. The cave is beautiful--it shimmers with every beam of their flashlights, and Elizabeth even discovers and underground waterfall!But when the guide breaks his leg, it looks like the sixth graders are in for a bigger adventure that they counted on. Will they find their way out of the twisted underground maze? And can they do it in time to save their injured guide?Don't miss Books One, Two, and Four in this fantastic four-part miniseries: Countdown to Junior High!