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 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