Saturday, October 6, 2018

Breakout by Kate Messner

I just finished Breakout by Kate Messner, and did not expect to be writing about it on this blog.

I needed to let readers know that this book is such a great start for discussions about race and hidden biases!! I'd suggest it for grades 5 and up. Although it's 433 pages, it's full of letters, reports, text messages, recorded conversations, poems, and drawings, so it doesn't take that long to read. It also includes inspiration from Nikki Giovanni, Nikki Grimes, Jacqueline Woodson and Lin Manuel Miranda.