Name: Breakout
Price: 19.95 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Kate Messner
ISBN: 9781681195360

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kate Messner

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781681195360

Synopsis "Breakout "

"Breakout is the story of a prison break narrated by three girls who live in the neighborhood surrounding the prison. What begins as just reporting on the event ends up saying a lot about racism and criminal justice, told in a very accessible style of texts, comics, letters, and more." - Seira Wilson, Amazon EditorNora 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 worries that home might never feel the same. 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.

Kate Messner

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Kate Messner is passionately curious and writes books for children who also wonder. Her award-winning titles include picture books like Over and Under the Snow and The Brilliant Deep; novels such as All the Answers, Breakout, and Chirp; engaging non-fiction works like The Next President and Tracking Pythons; the easy readers of Fergus and Zeke, the popular chapter books Ranger in Time, and the illustrated non-fiction series History Smashers. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kate was a TV news reporter and a middle school teacher. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to reach the summit of the forty-six Adirondack High Peaks between book deadlines.

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