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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
""The story of the Chicago Defender is the story of race in the twentieth century." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed...
8) Paper money
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1987], ©1977
Language
English
Description
Independent events occur on a single morning in London., An MP wakes up after spending the night with a woman he picked up at a bar, a tycoon meets a Bank of England official for breakfast, and a criminal briefs his crew. These avaricious characters become integral members of a larger conspiracy
Author
Language
English
Description
With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Career Day at Ella Mentry School, local reporter Mrs. Lilly helps A.J. and his fellow third-graders start a school newspaper, but their efforts have unexpected, and terrible, consequences
11) South siders
Author
Publisher
[David McGrath]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"South Siders, a collection of favorite columns that individually appeared in papers all across the country, is a guided tour of McGrath's Midwest, where 16 inch softball played barehanded by men past their prime, is more popular than the Superbowl; where funeral luncheons are indistinguishable from wedding receptions; where marriage is still till death do us part (with Illinois boasting the country's lowest divorce rate); where parents still discipline...
12) Front page news
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Boys rock!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The feud between the Hatford brothers and the neighboring Malloy sisters continues over the summer when they reluctantly join forces to publish a newspaper
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo goes on a TV gameshow in order to keep his newspaper from being taken over by Cheesecake
16) Lost Lake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes...
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who is The Horoscope Writer? It's not Bobby Frindley. He's an ex-Olympic athlete who has fast-talked his way into an entry-level position at a dying newspaper. He's supposed to be writing horoscopes, but someone has been doing his job for him... On his first night on the job, Bobby receives an email with twelve gruesome, highly-detailed horoscopes, along with a chilling ultimatum: print them and one will come true, or ignore them and all of them will....
Author
Series
Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Thea Sisters and some friends want to start a school newspaper. Then Colette's diary is missing and sports reporter Nicky witnesses something suspicious at the Iron Mouse Games. The Sisters try to solve both mysteries and still get the paper out on time
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper
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