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Breakout

Kate Messner

Ages 10–15

Readers rate it 3.5 (6 on Hardcover)

441 pages · Released 2018

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Breakout uses a prison break as a catalyst to explore how fear and prejudice can affect communities and relationships. While the premise involves escaped inmates and tension, the story focuses more on how Nora and her peers respond to social conflict than on graphic action. The book emphasizes journalism, critical thinking, and standing up for what's right even when it's unpopular.

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Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek. But when two inmates break out of the town s maximum security prison, everything changes.Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life. Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek. But when two inmates break out of the town s maximum security prison, everything changes.Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life.

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  • Time capsules
  • Community life
  • Fiction
  • Prisons
  • Children's fiction
  • Community life, fiction
  • Journalism, fiction
  • Prisons, fiction
  • Schools, fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Young Adult
  • Adventure

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ISBN 9781681195360 · Bloomsbury Publishing

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