Breakout
Bloomsbury
Available: 06/05/18
5.89 x 8.5 · 448 pages
Ages 10-14 years
9781681195360
CDN $23.99
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Told in letters, poems, text messages, news stories, and comics - a series of documents Nora collects for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project - Breakout is a thrilling story that will leave readers thinking about who's really welcome in the places we call home.
Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek - two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life. Even if the inmates are caught, she worriesthat home might never feel the same.
A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year
Kate Messner is a former middle-school English teacher and the author of E. B. White Read Aloud Award winner The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z . and its companion, The Exact Location of Home ; Sugar and Ice ; Eye of the Storm ; Wake Up Missing ; All the Answers ; The Seventh Wish ; Capture the Flag ; Hide and Seek ; the Marty McGuire chapter book series; the Ranger in Time chapter book series; and several picture books. She lives on Lake Champlain with her husband and two kids. When she's not reading or writing, she loves hiking, kayaking, biking, and watching thunderstorms over the lake. www.katemessner.com
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