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Girl Reporter Blows Lid Off Town! (Get Real, No. 1)

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a great book for 5th grade age children. I found it extremely delightful. I would recommend this book for a class reading selection. It has issues that could be used for interesting class discussions.

You will NOT believe me, But Linda Ellerbee came to MY school! I met her PERSONALY! I thought the book would be stupid, but SOOOOO many people got them autographed I decided to buy a copy to get autographed. (She was REALLY nice!) I thought the book was GREAT! Okay Casey's over-obsesive intrest in journalisim was a little wierd, but the teamwork Casey showed was really cool!She gets along with everybody and is a fun character. Once you read this book I SWEAR you'll be hooked! Great for girls and boys of any age!

I was looking for a book to read aloud with my six year old daughter. What do you pick for a girl who watches Nickleodeon all day? This book has proved a big hit. There is a nice variety of characters and the girls, especially, have a variety of attitudes far beyond the usual juvenile stereotypes. Also, unlike alot of recent series books with bright colorful covers, the prose won't make you sick when you read it to your kids! We're looking forward to more books in this series.

The main charactor-a stubborn, smart-alecky reporter-Casey Brown is slightly biased, but insightful enough. The book is fast paced and all together excellent. I've read most of the series-let me tell you, the endings are usually a big twist! A real page-turner.

If only Linda's books were around when I was a kid. These are MUST reads for any kids who do not fit into the "jock/cheerleader" mold. Wait. Perhaps they need the books most of all. The Get Real series are filled with on topic social issues, issues children deal with daily as "outcasts" or "outsiders". Want someone you love to feel good who may be going through teenage anxiety angst? This is a must read for them.

It's so awesome! Buy it! But before you rush out to Barnes and Noble I better fill you in on the book. Casey Smith, girl reporter is on her way to greatness in the word of jornalisam. By the school newspaper! When Casey find out there is NO newspaper, cancelled in the 80's for lack of interest,she takes matters into her own hands. She decides to rebuild the newspaper! But Megan O'Connor, Princess of pink, beats her to the punch. Read on as Casey and Megan battle for the position of editor, and manage to put together a staff. In the meantime, Casey is working on her story for the newspaper, about how Riverhead Paper Mill is polluting the Sussex River. She goes through amazing adventures as she pulls together her story. When she finds out that the toxic in the river thats dumped from the paper mill is above legal limits, She busts Riverhead by means of front page story on Real News, the schools newspaper. That is IF she can manage to pull together her story, win the electoin for editor, AND someday win the Pulitzer, the highest honor in jornalisam. Sound like a lot of work for an eleven year old girl????? Get Real.

This is a wonderful, intelligent, and humorous new series with a nice variety of smart, likeable kids! This first book is captivating & suspenseful, and this series is bound to arouse interest in journalism, as well as writing in general. However, GET REAL#1 has a glaring scientific error! On p.139, it states that litmus paper turns "blue" in the presence of acid (Casey is trying to prove that the river has become dangerously acidic due to the paper mill's emissions into the river), when in reality, it turns RED. The whole page goes on about the different degrees of "blueness"! It is ironic because one of the lessons which Casey needs to learn is to "check your facts"! I wish the author and/or her editor had checked her facts. Otherwise, I would have given it 5 stars. All in all, it is a VERY entertaining new series - one that both kids & adults will enjoy!

Casey Smith is an excellent journalist. Now that she's in 6th grade and at a new school she knows she will write for the school newspaper. Only problem? There isn't one. How could there not be a school newspaper? She finally decides to ask if she can start one, but somebody's beaten her. Megan O' Connor. The perky pink 6th grader who cares about clothes and dances, not things that affect the world. Casey has to try and get along with Megan while investigating a big story about a paper company polluting the Sussex River. She also has to try to get people to vote for her for Editor or she will be stuck being bossed around by Megan all year.

This is an excellent book, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys journalism.

The book Girl Reporter is one of the few best books that I have read. The story is mainly about two girls named Casey Smith and Megan O'connor fighting for the job of newspaper editor, belive me it is one BIG catfight. Meanwhile toxic waste is flowing into the Sussex river,and it is all coming from the River Head Paper Mill. Casey thinks this story would be one of the best stories to go on the front page in the newspaper,so she digs down deep into the story mabey too deep.

This book is the best book I have read all year. It talks about a girl named Casey, who goes to a middle school. She has been waiting forever to be in a school newspaper. But when she finds out that the school didn't have one because people were lazy, Casey was speechless. After a while she thought about starting it up again. Except when Casey got to school 4 hours early that day, Mr. Baxter, the teacher of the operation, told her that a sixth grader named Megan o'Conner started getting ready for the newspaper. They meet and work together to make their newspaper wish come true!