"Between laughs, readers will be prompted to think — about what constitutes truth, how the media massages it, and the importance of ethics, fairness, and getting the facts right." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Adam Canfield has to be the most overprogrammed middle-school student in America. So when super-organized Jennifer coaxes him to be coeditor of their school newspaper, The Slash, he wonders if he’s made a big mistake. But when a third-grader’s article leads to a big scoop, Adam and his fellow junior journalists rise to the challenge of receiving their principal’s wrath to uncover some scandalous secrets. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist comes a funny, inspiring debut that sneaks in some lessons on personal integrity — and captures the rush that’s connected to the breaking of a really great story.
Michael Winerip Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Michael Winerip, een met de Pulitzerprijs bekroonde reporter van The New York Times, verleent zijn literaire personages de buitengewone kracht van woorden. Door zijn verhalen onderzoekt hij hoe het vermogen om waarheidsgetrouw en inzichtelijk te schrijven individuen de macht kan geven om onrecht te corrigeren en de waarheid te achterhalen. Zijn uitgebreide achtergrond in diverse journalistieke rollen, van onderzoeksjournalistiek tot columns over onderwijs en ouderschap, vormt zijn auteursstem, waarbij hij de nadruk legt op de kracht die schuilt in scherpe observatie en precieze expressie. Winerips werk onthult uiteindelijk dat woorden ware superhelden zijn, die het verschil kunnen maken.
Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better.This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world.