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Breakout

9781681195360

Bloomsbury
Available: 06/05/18
5.89 x 8.5 · 448 pages
Ages 10-14 years
9781681195360
CDN $23.99 · cl
With dust jacket

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Kate Messner

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.

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 worries that home might never feel the same.

A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year

New York Times bestselling authorKate Messner is passionately curious and writes books for kids who wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books like Over and Under the Snow, The Next Scientist, and The Scariest Kitten in the World as well as novels for older readers like Breakout and The Trouble with Heroes. Kate also writes the popular History Smashers graphic nonfiction series and leads the multi-author team behind The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class chapter books. She splits her time between Lake Champlain and Florida.

www.katemessner.com
@KateMessner

Falynn Koch was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She has an MFA in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and is a graduate of the International Culinary Center in New York City. She loves to travel, try new food, and explore the outdoors with her family and friends.

www.falynnk.com