Breakout
by:
Kate Messner (author)
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...
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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,
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ISBN:
9781681195360
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Audience: Grades 4 & up Format: Hardcover/Library copy Dear Library Board, Enclosed is my contribution to the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project. - opening lines Wolf Creek is located in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The town is built around a maximum-security prison and most ...
Squarely aimed at the middle grade reader, this is an earnest story about community, race, cross country racing and the prison industry that gets didactic, but I think it will work for its intended audience, and it's not unaware of its tone. I will find out after the book discussion later this mont...
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