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 Banksymay 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 at the UBC School of Creative Writing in Vancouver, BC.
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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 Banksymay 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 at the UBC School of Creative Writing in Vancouver, BC.
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