# Breakout

**Author:** Kate Messner
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 445
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781681195384`
**ISBN-10:** `1681195380`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/breakout
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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.

## Themes

- time capsules
- community life
- prisons
- community life, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2020-2021 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2020-2021 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2020-2021 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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