Landry News

By Andrew Clements, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)

An eleven-year-old girl creates a newspaper that exposes the truth about her school and her teacher.

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138 pages· 26,695 words· Est. 3.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Cara Landry, a young journalist, posts a bold editorial about her uninspired teacher, Mr. Larson. This sparks a school-wide controversy, as the principal seeks to use the uproar to dismiss Mr. Larson. Amidst the chaos, Mr. Larson turns the situation into a powerful teaching moment, challenging his students to create a real newspaper. As the town debates the First Amendment, Cara and her classmates learn the delicate balance between truth and compassion. But will their newfound lessons come at the cost of Mr. Larson's job?

From the publisher

From the Editor’s Desk A Question of Fairness There has been no teaching so far this year in Mr. Larson’s classroom. There has been learning, but there has been no teaching. There is a teacher in the classroom, but he does not teach. Cara Landry is a budding journalist. When she posts a scathing editorial about her burned-out teacher on the bulletin board one afternoon, everything changes. Prodded into action for the first time in years, Mr. Larson challenges his fifth-grade students to create a real newspaper. Soon The Landry News gets more attention than either Cara or her teacher bargained for, as the principal uses the paper to try to get Mr. Larson fired. While the whole town is swept up in a dramatic debate over The Landry News and the First Amendment, Mr. Larson uses the controversy as raw material for some of the finest teaching of his career. And Cara and her classmates learn the importance of tempering a newspaper’s truth with mercy. But will their lessons cost Mr. Larson his job? Written by the author of the immensely popular Frindle, this is a compelling new novel about the collision of a student in need of a teacher with a teacher in need of inspiration

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