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Breakout by Kate Messner follows Nora Tucker, her best friend Lizzie Bruno, and new student Elidee Jones as their small upstate New York town becomes the center of a manhunt after two inmates escape from the local prison. Through letters, sketches, poems, and other documents for a community time capsule, the girls confront biases and learn about their town's and their own privilege. This novel includes incidents of bullying, racism, and incarceration, and references to violence.