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Name: The news crew
Author: Walter Dean Myers

Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy and learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.

First publish date: 2015

Authors: Walter Dean Myers

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