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The Escape (Quick Reads)

Lynda La Plante

Reading level: Level 1, Level 2, Quick Reads

Colin Burrows is desperate. Recently sent to prison for burglary, he knows that his four year sentence means that he will miss the birth of his first child.

Sharing a cell with Colin is Barry Marsden. Unlike most of the inmates, Barry actually likes prison life. He’s come from a very difficult family. In prison, he has three meals a day and he has discovered a talent for drawing.

Sad to see his cellmate looking depressed, Barry hatches a plan to get Colin out of jail for the birth. It’s a plan so crazy that either it will fail and get both men in deeper trouble, or it might just work.

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  • Simon & Schuster
  • 9781471132292
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