Does this book need to be read as part of a series?

This is the first installment of the five-book Escape from Furnace series, and the narrative arc continues directly into the subsequent volumes.

Is there any additional material related to this story?

The author expanded the world of the series with a novella titled The Night Children, which provides further context to the events within the prison.

Lockdown

Dystopian Science Fiction

Pages: 229
Published: 2009
Language: English

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Alex is wrongly accused of murder and sent to the Furnace Penitentiary, a place filled with dangerous inmates and cruel guards. In this harsh environment, boys vanish and sometimes return changed, but Alex discovers that escape might just be a possibility.