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PLATTSBURGH — Author Kate Messner has seen a jump in sales of her novel “Breakout” with the broadcast of Showtime's “Escape at Dannemora” this past month. If Director Ben Stiller's ...

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PLATTSBURGH — Author Kate Messner's new Bloomsbury novel “Breakout” is a breakthrough for kids who don't read books. Her fictionalized account of the 2015 prison escape at Clinton ...

Grace Lin and Kate Messner have collaborated to tell a modern folktale. Caldecott and Newbery Honoree Grace Lin and bestselling author Kate Messner released “Once Upon a Book” on Feb. 7, a ...