Henry Huggins can't wait until he turns eleven years old so that he can have a paper route like his friend Scooter.

Lucy Drake's mastery of Morse code has made her a valuable asset to the American news agencies as a telegrapher. But the sudden arrival of Sir Colin Beckwith at rival British news agency Reuters puts her hard-earned livelihood at risk. Newly arrived from London, Colin is talented, handsome, and insufferably charming. Despite their rivalry, Lucy realizes Colin's connections could be just what her family needs to turn the tide of their long legal battle...

A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.

We regret the error: it's a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. From Craig Silverman, the proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, one of the Internet's most popular media-related websites, comes a collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections. On display are all types of media inaccuracy-from...

"The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder."--

A light-hearted look at the history and practice of "the ultimate human-interest story," the obituary. "What a wonderful surprise-a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries. The Dead Beat is sly, droll, and completely winning."- David Halberstam Where can readers celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys, the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess?...

Eighth-grade twins Olivia and Ivy and their friends try to prevent a nosy television reporter, Serena Star, from uncovering the secret community of vampires in Franklin Grove.

Traurig über den Tod von Martin Walser blicken wir zurück auf das Leben eines Mannes, der in vielen Zeitpunkten seines Lebens am Anfang stand und doch immer wieder Neues in sich fand. Anhand der Beiträge von Wegbegleitern versuchen wir nachzuvollziehen, was Martin Walser angetrieben hat. Wie fand er zu seiner Stimme in der Literatur? Welche Rolle spielten das Scheitern und das Rebellieren in seinem Leben? Welchen Einfluss haben die Werke des Schriftstellers,...