The suspenseful central plot begins when these three journalists discover that their school's social-climbing principal-a woman who likes to try to dictate the paper's content and use it as a medium for feel-good community relations-may have misused funds from a bequest to install luxurious amenities in her office. Among them is the matter of how to supervise Phoebe, a pesky third-grade cub reporter who, though annoyingly hyper, turns out to have a remarkably potent pen and a disturbing talent for sniffing out front-page scoops. While he has a precocious penchant for investigative reporting, he's decidedly less adept in the interpersonal arena and finds he has much to learn from his more poised partner, Jennifer, about meeting the subtler demands of the job. Adam is the reluctant new coeditor of The Slash, his affluent suburb's "award-winning" elementary/middle school newspaper. But then a third grader delivers a scoop bigger than any of Adam's career, and only Adam can dig deep enough to crack through a cover-up that will rock the very foundations of Harris itself.įrom Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Michael Winerip, here is a first novel that delivers the rush of the newsroom, the adrenaline of a reporter on the trail of a hot story, and some keen insights into human nature - all with a lot of laughs.Winerip has tapped on his experiences reporting on education issues for the New York Times to fashion this excellent novel. Between supervising know-it-all cub reporters and arguing with Principal Marris about which articles will "propel the Good Ship Harris forward," Adam worries he might lose it altogether. Then his friend Jennifer talks him into being co-editor of the Slash. When does a guy get time to just shoot some baskets anymore? Gladiator quiz bowl, jazz band, statewide test prep class - he's always running somewhere, and nine times out of 10, running late.
Nowadays he's also the most overprogrammed kid in America. For years, Adam Canfield has been the number-one star reporter for the Harris Elementary/Middle School paper, the Slash.
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