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1) Fake news, propaganda, and plain old lies: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles?
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives.
• Learn how to identify the alarm bells...
2) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Wendy Tynes, a reporter who identifies sexual predators through sting operations, has publicly shamed dozens of men before she encounters Dan Mercer. Dan is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with aftereffects including PTSD and memory loss. In an attempt to put herself back together after surviving the unthinkable, Dana returns to her hometown. But it doesn't provide the comfort she expects: She struggles...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
324p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record.
An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force-the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed "The Tsunami", quickly realizes that even within...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny writes an editorial for her fourth-grade classroom newspaper urging that her beloved cat, Munchkin, become the official school cat, despite his mischievous behavior before and during a Valentine's Day pet party.
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, the New School, and Harvard University. Now she reveals the wildly popular 'Instant Gratification Takes Too Long" technique she's perfected, sharing how to land impressive clips to start or re-launch your career. The author walks you through every stage of crafting and selling short nonfiction pieces....
10) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex-best...
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The waning years of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new kind of journalism in the United States, one that not only challenged government and corporate power, but also turned to sordid crimes and scandals for much of its material. Sensational, shocking, and lurid, this new style of reporting came to be known as "yellow journalism." The trend influenced newspapers across the country, and its role in building public support for the Spanish-American...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Although news outlets are meant to be impartial, they have never been perfectly unbiased. Another layer was added to the ongoing debate over the role of news media after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when allegations of fake news surfaced. How can people know which news sources to trust? This volume explores the fake news phenomenon and offers readers tips on how to be critical of what they see reported. Full-color photographs, engaging sidebars,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the third book of the Samantha Sanderson series, when the school’s grades were tampered with, Sam must enlist Makayla’s help in hacking the system to discover the virus that was used and who committed the crime. But when the lead suspect is her newfound friend, Felicia, Sam must choose whether to stick by her friends at all costs or report the story as she sees it. --Amazon
Author
Publisher
New Paige Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Today's media is all around us is unavoidable. Social media and the 24-hour news cycle has helped evolve jouranlism into an industry that often injects bias, negativity and sensationalism into it's stories in order to increase visibilty. Even worse, the general population has had a diminishing attention span, with the majority of people rarely reading beyond the headline. Have You Heard the News? gives kids a first glimpse at some of the red flags...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an explosive device is found in the local movie theater, middle school journalist Samantha Sanderson gets the lead on this developing and controversial story--controversial because the movie theater has recently come under attack by a renowned, outspoken atheist for allowing a local church to show Christian movies.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Can their words have the power to right the wrongs around them?
Abandoned on the Mumbai railways, Ajay has grown up with nothing but a burning wish to be a journalist. And after finding an abandoned printing press, his dreams might just come true. But when he and his friend Saif, Vinod, Yasmin, and Jai create their own newspaper, The Mumbai Sun, and begin to hunt down stories to fill its pages, the children uncover a plan to tear down their slum--which...
18) Without a trace
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Middle school journalist Samantha Sanderson and her tech-savvy friend Makayla investigate the disappearance of their friend Tam Lee.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Using clear text and heart-pounding photography, this title teaches the basics of taking outstanding sports photography. Readers will learn how to choose the right lenses to capture action, plus how to focus in quick- changing situations. Other subjects include shooting at night, how to shoot with fast shutter speeds, how to convey motion, cropping, and tips for the digital darkroom. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Samantha has little sympathy when she hears that "mean girl" Nikki's parents are divorcing, but when Nikki come under attack, Samantha uses her investigative skills and help from her "tech-savvy" best friend Makayla to track down clues in hopes of writing a series on bullying for the school newspaper.