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Breakout
Breakout | Kate Messner
9 posts | 14 read | 9 to read
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 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.
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RYKERXD
Breakout | Kate Messner
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So far the book is in cool texting-like format and in some parts have sticky notes and writing on them. It is very interesting but I'm not going to spoil anything.

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Nebklvr
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I would say this book dealt with race issues in a very heavy handed way but in the current climate heavy-handed seems the norm. This book comments on a lot of different issues. I wish the incarcerated brother had been allowed a voice. Text messages, letters, and illustrations were used to detail the events surrounding the breakout for a time capsule. This book begs the question “How do we want to be remembered?”

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booked4life
Breakout | Kate Messner
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5 stars! This book was filled with important topics that people should be discussing. Being a middle grade book, the author did a great job of bringing these topics up in a way that was fun, easy to understand, and can facilitate discussion!

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Lmstraubie
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I love how the author used various forms of writing (letters, announcements, text messages, articles) to tell this story.

Peddler410 I have this one somewhere. 6y
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booked4life
Breakout | Kate Messner
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Trying to read a middle grade novel here and there! This one caught my eye!

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