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A Question of Fairness
There has been no teaching so far this year in Mr. Larson's classroom. There has been learning, but there has been no teaching. There is a teacher in the classroom, but he does not teach.
Cara Landry is a budding journalist. When she posts a scathing editorial about her burned-out teacher on the bulletin board one afternoon, everything changes. Prodded into action for the first time in years, Mr. Larson challenges his fifth-grade students to create a real newspaper. Soon The Landry News gets more attention than either Cara or her teacher bargained for, as the principal uses the paper to try to get Mr. Larson fired. While the whole town is swept up in a dramatic debate over The Landry News and the First Amendment, Mr. Larson uses the controversy as raw material for some of the finest teaching of his career. And Cara and her classmates learn the importance of tempering a newspaper's truth with mercy. But will their lessons cost Mr. Larson his job?
Written by the author of the immensely popular Frindle, this is a compelling new novel about the collision of a student in need of a teacher with a teacher in need of inspiration

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.73w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780689818172
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 31641 / Landry News


Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Maine Student Book Award - Third Place
Award: Golden Sower Award - Nominee
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee
Award: Sasquatch Award - Nominee
Award: William Allen White Childens Book Award - Winner
Award: Bluebonnet Awards - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 06/07/1999 pg. 83
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1828
School Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 95
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 290 - Superior,Well Above Average
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 290 - Superior,Well Above Average
Library Journal 12/01/1999

About the Author
Andrew Clements (1949-2019) was the author of the enormously popular Frindle. More than 10 million copies of his books have been sold, and he was nominated for a multitude of state awards, including a Christopher Award and an Edgar Award. His popular works include About Average, Troublemaker, Extra Credit, Lost and Found, No Talking, Room One, Lunch Money, and more. He was also the author of the Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School series. Find out more at AndrewClements.com.

Salvatore Murdocca has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and textbooks. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.