Runaway Trip to London Reveals Family Secrets in Middle Grade Debut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ST. PAUL, MN, May 25, 2021 – Jolly Fish Press, an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc. (NSE) is excited to announce the November 16, 2021, release of The Art of Running Away by Sabrina Kleckner. The Art of Running Away is a humorously voiced middle-grade family drama pitched as From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler set in London. When Maisie reconnects with her estranged 22-year-old brother abroad while trying to save her family’s portrait studio, she uncovers a truth about her parents that changes everything.

More about The Art of Running Away:
Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she’s in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna’s Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn’t think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents’ insistence that she “broaden her horizons” and try something new—something that isn’t art.

But when Glenna’s Portraits falls on hard times, Maisie’s plan to take over the shop when she’s older and become a lifelong artist starts to crumble. In desperation to make things right, Maisie runs away to London to reconnect with her adult brother, hoping he might be the key to saving the shop. But as Maisie learns about her family’s past from Calum, she starts to rethink everything she’s ever known. Maisie must decide not only if saving her family’s art shop is worth it, but if she can forgive her parents for the mistakes they’ve made.

The Art of Running Away by Sabrina Kleckner

Ages 8–14 / ISBN: 978-1-63163-577-9 / $9.99 paperback original / 256 pages / Publication date: November 16, 2021

Sabrina Kleckner is the author of The Art of Running Away, a middle grade contemporary novel about family and identity. She began writing at the age of twelve, and is grateful to not be debuting with the angsty assassin book she toiled over in her teens. When she is not writing, she can be found teaching ESL or gushing about her three cats to anyone who will listen.

Jolly Fish Press, an imprint of North Star Editions, is dedicated to promoting exceptional, unique new voices in fiction. North Star Editions, Inc., publishes fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages that inspires, informs, and entertains. For more information, visit jollyfishpress.com or northstareditions.com.

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Taylor Kohn, publicity@northstareditions.com, 651-424-4626