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 has worked as a typesetter, graphic designer and photo editor before pursing writing full-time. She is the author of Mya's Strategy to Save the World, as well as many non-fiction titles, including Shadow Warrior, nominated for the ALA's Amelia Bloomer Project List, and Eyes and Spies: How You're Tracked and Why You Should Know, which won the Montaigne Medal Award. She is also the author of middle-grade and YA novels, including Anywhere but Here, which was praised by Kirkus as having a main character whose "voice is convincingly filled with a combination of angst and nonchalance," and The Prince of Pot, shortlisted for the OLA White Pine Award.
