pedestrienne

Squarely aimed at the middle grade reader, this is an earnest story about community, race, cross country racing and the prison industry that gets didactic, but I think it will work for its intended audience, and it's not unaware of its tone. I will find out after the book discussion later this month how actual middle school age kids react to the book - ones that are from a much more urban environment than Nora and Lizzie, though. It could have used more editing for sure - even with the format of letters and texts, it drags, and the framing of it being a time capsule project is stretched thin and kind of not needed? It could have been prose with texts and stuff added in.