A review by mbrandmaier
Breakout by Kate Messner

5.0

Two inmates break out of the maximum security prison in a small town in upstate New York. Residents have varied reactions to the breakout and also to newcomers Elidee and her mom, who moved there to be closer to Elidee’s inmate brother. The reader will get to see a wide variety of the ways racism can manifest (sometimes very subtly, sometimes very thinly veiled). I like the list of additional suggested reads that the author included after the book was finished.