Cruisers
Author
1) The Cruisers
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate--one of the best chess players in New York City--was caught trying to buy drugs.
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Zander's play, Act Six, brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda's costume designs win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic brother and their group home behind.
4) Oh, Snap!
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Walter Dean Myers's Cruisers series keeps going strong!The Cruisers are in trouble -- again. The freedom of expression they've enjoyed by publishing their own school newspaper, THE CRUISER, has spread all the way to England, where kids from a school "across the pond" 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,...