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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.
A compelling novel about the collision of a student in need of a teacher with a teacher in need of inspiration.
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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.
A compelling novel about the collision of a student in need of a teacher with a teacher in need of inspiration.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0786227079
- ISBN 13 9780786227075
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages159
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