World's scariest prisons / Emma Carlson Berne.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2014]Description: 108 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0545680239
- 9780545680233
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 365.9 B525 | Available | 33111007917442 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Featuring photos and stories from the world's scariest prisons, discover why prison is to be avoided at all costs!
World's Scariest Prisons explores the most terrifying prisons of all time. From the Roman Coliseum to the Bastille, the Tower of London to Alcatraz, World's Scariest Prisons will captivate young readers!
Each prison has its own photo-intensive overview as well as a sidebar, a break out fact box, and a quote, followed by a feature spread that explores high-interest topics such as prison slang, prison clothes, and prison food, as well as little known details about kids in prison, famous escapees, and ghost stories.
Perfect for reluctant readers, World's Scariest Prisons is equal parts informative and fun.
Examines twenty prisons from around the world and includes descriptions of living conditions, information on famous prisoners, and facts about when the prisons were in operation and what types of prisoners were held at each facility.