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The first rule of lockdown: Find a safe place to hide.Ava is having a really bad day. Her parents are getting divorced. She just had a big argument with her two best friends. And she forgot to charge her phone... again.To top it all off, while she is hiding out in the bathroom over lunch, the alarm goes off for a lockdown drill. Ava knows the rules. She has to get herself into a classroom, turn the ringer off on her phone, lock the door, and cover the windows. But all of the rooms have already been locked from the inside and there is no one in the halls.Pretty soon she realizes there is an intruder in the building. This isn’t a drill.From the author of From Me to Youand House Arrest, comes this timely book that explores both the effect of school lockdown drills and the relatable struggles of modern middle grade friendship.
I added this to my middle school self/contained LD classroom library after prereading it to make sure it wasn’t going to be traumatizing based on the content. Very creative storytelling told through phone messages/apps/news reports.It works well for students as a high-low book (high interest, low reading level), and is engaging but doesn’t take too long to read. Good for building a sense of accomplishment.Spoiler alert for curious teachers: No one dies or gets shot in this book though there is an intruder—that was what I had been most concerned with when prereading since the kids who would be reading it are in a school.I still probably wouldn’t read it as a whole class novel since you don’t always know the background of every student and this may touch too close to home for some, but as a choice for independent reading I really loved it. Would highly recommend.
