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Oh, Snap! (The News Crew, Book 4)
Author:
Myers, Walter Dean
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Series:
Cruisers, #4
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 8-12
Language: English
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LC: PZ7
Grade: 3-7
Print Run: 7500
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ISBN-13: 9780439916295
LCCN: BD13169053
Imprint: Scholastic Press
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
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Pub Date: 07/30/2013
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $17.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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120 pages ; 20 cm.
H 7.5",
W 5.5"
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LC Series:
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Cruisers series.
The Cruisers
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Booklist High-Demand Hot List
Middle and Junior High Core Collection, 12th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 19th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 20th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 21st ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Writing/Journalism/Publishing
School Stories
African American & Black
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / General
JUVENILE FICTION / African American & Black
JUVENILE FICTION / Places / United States
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
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LC Subjects:
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African Americans, Fiction
Gifted children, Fiction
Newspapers, Fiction
Schools, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
African Americans, Fiction
Gifted children, Fiction
Newspapers, Fiction
School stories
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5.2
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Points: 3.0
Lexile Level:
820
Reading Counts Level:
5.4
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Points: 7.0
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| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 08/01/2013 |
| The quest for 'cool' lands the Cruisers in some international hot water when a group of contributors from England seem to be writing for their own magazine. The photos showing up with these articles are starting to raise some eyebrows as the Cruisers realize that pictures rarely tell the whole tale. Cruisers series, 128pp. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 05/15/2013 |
| Grades 5-8. The Cruisers is a popular middle-grade series, and the fourth volume does not disappoint. This time our four budding urban journalists are psyched that their underground publication, The Cruiser, was named the third-best school newspaper in the city, an honor that doesn't sit well with the official school newspaper, which ups its game. This pushes narrator Zander to hastily get involved with the case of Phat Tony, a wannabe rapper classmate who may be involved in a robbery at the local mall. Zander and the gang don't want to rat anyone out--who knows if Phat Tony is really the gangsta he pretends to be?--but if they don't fess up, they could be considered accessories to a crime. Myers proves once again that he is a master of writing smart, realistic kids without ever depicting them as preternaturally wise or philosophical. The plot is optimistic but not tidy, and snippets from both school newspapers illustrate good examples of civil discourse. This is one series with a lot of juice left in it. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Anything the current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature writes is big business, but this series is quickly becoming his flagship. Kraus, Daniel. 128p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
| 3. Zander and his Cruiser friends have an important decision to make when one of their own takes a photograph that could implicate a classmate in a crime. In this fourth reluctant-reader-friendly installment, the Cruisers continue to realistically navigate Harlem's Da Vinci Academy and tackle relatable issues there and at home. Newspaper articles and poems written by the characters end each chapter. ka. 121pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 06/01/2013 |
| The fourth installment of the Cruisers series finds Zander Scott and friends unwittingly involved in an international investigation. Zander, Bobbi, LaShonda and Kambui are middle school students at Harlem's Da Vinci Academy for the Gifted and Talented. Their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, came in third on the School Journalism Association's list of best school newspapers. Good for them, not so good for Ashley Schmidt, editor of Da Vinci's official newspaper, The Palette, which received no recognition. "I'm going to bury you and your stupid newspaper!" hisses Ashley, who's planning on a monthly reprinting of 200 words from the British newspaper the Guardian to borrow a bit of glory. Zander decides to do the same and somehow thinks it's a good idea to tell the folks at London's Phoenix School about the pictures Kambui took that place their "Genius Gangsta" friend Phat Tony at the mall when a robbery occurred there. Tony denies being at the mall, and the Cruisers haven't told anyone else about the pictures, so the British school contacts Scotland Yard, and now Zander and company may be in big trouble. As with the previous three installments, this sparkles with intelligent dialogue and clever banter, all while advancing a story in which Zander ponders journalism, academics, girls, and even the Fibonacci sequence and the grand design of the universe. Myers once again offers a story of smart kids living out their middle school days as Cruisers "on the high seas of life." (Fiction. 9-13). 128pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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