"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 Orden de los libros (cronológico)
Michael Winerip, reportero ganador del Premio Pulitzer para The New York Times, dota a sus personajes literarios del extraordinario poder de las palabras. A través de sus narrativas, explora cómo la habilidad de escribir con veracidad y perspicacia puede empoderar a las personas para corregir injusticias y descubrir la verdad. Su extensa experiencia en diversos roles periodísticos, desde reportajes de investigación hasta columnas sobre educación y crianza, moldea su voz autoral, enfatizando la fuerza que se encuentra en la observación aguda y la expresión precisa. El trabajo de Winerip revela, en última instancia, que las palabras son verdaderos superhéroes, capaces de marcar la diferencia.
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.