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The freedom of expression The Cruisers have enjoyed by publishing their own school newspaper, THE CRUISER, has spread all the way to England, where kids from a school there are now contributors to their own school's most talked-about publication. When photos start to go alongside the articles writte...

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Main Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014
Other Authors: Free, Kevin R.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2013.
Edition:Unabridged.
Series:Cruisers series ; #04
Subjects:
Gifted children > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction.
Children's audiobooks.
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Summary:The freedom of expression The Cruisers have enjoyed by publishing their own school newspaper, THE CRUISER, has spread all the way to England, where kids from a school there are now contributors to their own school's most talked-about publication. When photos start to go alongside the articles written by kids, things get suspicious. Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, Bobbi - and students from Harlem and London-come to learn that words and pictures in a newspaper don't always tell the whole story.
Item Description:Title from web page.
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Duration: 2:00:00.
Physical Description:2 sound discs (ca. 120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9781441863454
1441863451
Author Notes:Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsberg, West Virginia. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. He began writing stories while in his teens. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army at the age of 17. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write.

He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother.

He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76.

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