Every teen in the small community of Wolf Creek, in upper New York, is looking forward to summer vacation. With only a few days of school left, Nora Tucker and her friends are already imagining the lazy days of swimming at the pool, eating popsicles, and enjoying the many hiking opportunities around their community. Except two prisoners have just escaped from the maximum security prison located on the edge of town, and now the entire area is on lockdown with hundred of police officers searching the area.
As an aspiring journalist and editor of her school newspaper, Nora is both thrilled and horrified by this brazen escape. Her father is the prison warden, and his job is on the line and times are thus very stressful at home, especially since her younger brother was looking forward to his birthday party barbecue outside, and now it won’t happen. As a journalist, however, this is the opportunity of a lifetime to witness live coverage and learn from the best.
For Elidee, Wolf Creek is a new place to live. Her mother and her have just moved here so they can be closer to her brother, who has to spend a decade behind the walls of the prison for a crime he committed in New York City. With more inmates in town than people, and with a large majority of the prisoners being African-American, Elidee feels the tensions in town, as one of the few African-Americans outside of the walls. She really wants to attend a prestigious school in New York City, but her application has been rejected.
Lizzie is a great comedian and loves to create parodies, and finds journalism little more than an afterthought. When her grandmother is arrested for helping the inmates escape, her life changes. How does one make light of a terrible decision? As racial aspects of the community that were hidden before are revealed due to the stress, Nora, Elidee and Lizzie have to figure out how they will survive a summer stuck in their now fortified and paranoid town.
Told through text messages, transcripts of recorded conversations, lyrics, news stories, comics, and memoirs written for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project, fans of thrillers and friendship will appreciate Breakout.
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