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Me and Banksy

Author Tanya Lloyd Kyi
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$7.99 US
Tundra Book Group | Puffin Canada
5.56"W x 8.31"H x 0.75"D   | 9 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Apr 06, 2021 | 272 Pages | 978-0-7352-6693-3
Age 10 and up | Grade 5 & Up
Reading Level: Lexile 660L
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A Banksy-style protest against cameras in classrooms brings a group of middle-grade students together. For fans of Rebecca Stead, Susin Nielsen and Gordon Korman.

Dominica's private school is covered in cameras, and someone is hacking into them and posting embarrassing moments for the whole school to see. Like Ana picking her nose. When Dominica quickly changes her shirt from inside out in what she thinks is the privacy of a quiet corner in the library, she's shocked -- and embarrassed -- to discover a video has captured this and is currently circulating amongst her schoolmates. So mortifying, especially since over the past three years, they've had a half-dozen school talks about social media safety.

Who has access to the school security cameras and why are they doing this? Dominica and her best friends, Holden and Saanvi, are determined to find out, and in the process start an art-based student campaign against cameras in the classroom.
  • WINNER | 2022
    Red Cedar Book Award
  • NOMINEE | 2022
    Rocky Mountain Book Award
  • NOMINEE | 2022
    Chocolate Lily Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2021
    National Chapter IODE Violet Downey Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2021
    Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
  • SHORTLIST | 2021
    Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards
  • AWARD | 2021
    Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award
  • NOMINEE | 2021
    Surrey Schools Book of the Year
The Mystery Writers of America, 2021 Edward Awards, Best Juvenile Mystery (Nominated)
A Canadian Children's Book Centre Reading List Pick, May 2020 
One of CCBC’s Best Books for Kids and Teens Fall 2020
One of the Ontario Library Association's 2020 Best Bets selection (Honourable Mention, Junior Fiction category)

PRAISE FOR Me and Banksy:

“As incisive as it is funny, Me and Banksy offers strongly drawn characters and sharp insights about protest, victimization, and the precarious nature of surveillance.” --STARRED REVIEW, Quill & Quire

“Kyi . . . examines the large and small impacts of living in a surveillance society, but her faith in youth and art makes this story anything but dystopian.” --Publishers Weekly

“Me and Banksy is [an] engaging, well-plotted, and ultimately thought-provoking novel." --CM Reviews

“Kyi tackles the use of cameras and social media bullying in high schools, showing how friendship, art and self-empowerment save the day.” --BC Bookworld Magazine

“Me and Banksy may be preoccupied with the day's technological toys, but it puts in the foreground a timeless concern: teen angst.” --Shelf Awareness
TANYA LLOYD KYI is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. Tanya has worked in the past as a graphic designer, an editor and a dishwasher. (She considers herself entirely qualified for that last one.) Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is cheese and her favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time. Tanya teaches for the UBC School of Creative Writing in Vancouver, BC. View titles by Tanya Lloyd Kyi

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A Banksy-style protest against cameras in classrooms brings a group of middle-grade students together. For fans of Rebecca Stead, Susin Nielsen and Gordon Korman.

Dominica's private school is covered in cameras, and someone is hacking into them and posting embarrassing moments for the whole school to see. Like Ana picking her nose. When Dominica quickly changes her shirt from inside out in what she thinks is the privacy of a quiet corner in the library, she's shocked -- and embarrassed -- to discover a video has captured this and is currently circulating amongst her schoolmates. So mortifying, especially since over the past three years, they've had a half-dozen school talks about social media safety.

Who has access to the school security cameras and why are they doing this? Dominica and her best friends, Holden and Saanvi, are determined to find out, and in the process start an art-based student campaign against cameras in the classroom.

Awards

  • WINNER | 2022
    Red Cedar Book Award
  • NOMINEE | 2022
    Rocky Mountain Book Award
  • NOMINEE | 2022
    Chocolate Lily Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2021
    National Chapter IODE Violet Downey Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2021
    Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
  • SHORTLIST | 2021
    Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards
  • AWARD | 2021
    Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award
  • NOMINEE | 2021
    Surrey Schools Book of the Year

Praise

The Mystery Writers of America, 2021 Edward Awards, Best Juvenile Mystery (Nominated)
A Canadian Children's Book Centre Reading List Pick, May 2020 
One of CCBC’s Best Books for Kids and Teens Fall 2020
One of the Ontario Library Association's 2020 Best Bets selection (Honourable Mention, Junior Fiction category)

PRAISE FOR Me and Banksy:

“As incisive as it is funny, Me and Banksy offers strongly drawn characters and sharp insights about protest, victimization, and the precarious nature of surveillance.” --STARRED REVIEW, Quill & Quire

“Kyi . . . examines the large and small impacts of living in a surveillance society, but her faith in youth and art makes this story anything but dystopian.” --Publishers Weekly

“Me and Banksy is [an] engaging, well-plotted, and ultimately thought-provoking novel." --CM Reviews

“Kyi tackles the use of cameras and social media bullying in high schools, showing how friendship, art and self-empowerment save the day.” --BC Bookworld Magazine

“Me and Banksy may be preoccupied with the day's technological toys, but it puts in the foreground a timeless concern: teen angst.” --Shelf Awareness

Author

TANYA LLOYD KYI is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. Tanya has worked in the past as a graphic designer, an editor and a dishwasher. (She considers herself entirely qualified for that last one.) Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is cheese and her favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time. Tanya teaches for the UBC School of Creative Writing in Vancouver, BC. View titles by Tanya Lloyd Kyi

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