Breakout by Kate Messner, 441 pages. Bloomsbury, 2018. $18. Content: G; Mature Content: G; Violence:
PG
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Middle school student, Nora Tucker has had
her summer plans interrupted because two men escaped the local prison. Nora takes the situation and applies her love
of journalism to report on the escalating situation in her town. She plans on using her reports in the time
capsule for her Wolf Creek community. As
Nora and her friends gather information, Nora starts to realize that there are two
sides to every story.
The format used in
this story is a collection of notes, recordings and written articles. Nora tries to be a good journalist and she is
likable. I felt like the story drug on
for awhile and with the premise of escaped convicts I thought there would be
more action. The ending was exciting,
but it took forever to get to it. Overall
it needed a better editing job.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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