The Renegade Reporters

by Elissa Brent Weissman

Overview

When Ash gets kicked off her school's news show, she becomes a renegade reporter—and makes a big discovery about technology and her fellow students' privacy.

Ash and her friends are reporters. They were ready to lead their school news show, The News at Nine, sponsored by Van Ness Media, when an unfortunate incident involving a dancing teacher, an irresponsibly reported story, and a viral video got them kicked off the crew. So Ash, Maya, and Brielle decide to start their own news show, The Underground News. And soon they stumble on a big lead: Van Ness Media, the educational company that provides their school's software, has been gathering data from all the kids at school. Their drawings, their journals, even their movements are being recorded and cataloged by Van Ness Media. But why? Ash and her friends are determined to learn the truth and report it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593323045
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	810L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Elissa Brent Weissman is the award-winning author of several middle grade novels, including The Length of a String, the Nerd Camp series, and the editor of Our Story Begins, an anthology of writing and art by today's kids' book creators back when they were kids themselves. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and earned a master's degree in children's literature at the University of Roehampton in London. After spending many years in Baltimore, where she taught creative writing to children, college students, and adults and was named one of CBS Baltimore's Best Authors in Maryland, Elissa currently lives with her family in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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John Dickson (PhD, Macquarie University) serves as the Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor of Biblical Evangelism and Distinguished Scholar in Public Christianity at Wheaton College. A speaker, historian, and media presenter, John is the author of more than 20 books, two of which became television documentaries. He also cohosted the documentary For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than you Ever Imagined. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney, a Visiting Academic in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University (2016-2021), and Distinguished Fellow in Public Christianity at Ridley College Melbourne. John presents Australia’s no.1 religion podcast, Undeceptions, exploring aspects of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that are either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten.

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Contents

Foreword....................11
Introduction: The Da Vinci Code Factor?....................15
CHAPTER 1 THE GAME OF SCHOLARSHIP How to Read between the Headlines....................19
CHAPTER 2 SECRET GOSPELS Jesus in the Gnostic Writings....................27
CHAPTER 3 THE TROUBLE MAKER Jesus in Ancient Pagan Writings....................35
CHAPTER 4 DECEIVER AND MAGICIAN Jesus in Ancient Jewish Writings....................41
CHAPTER 5 BEHIND THE NEW TESTAMENT Earliest Christian Sources....................47
CHAPTER 6 BEFORE THE GOSPELS Jesus in Oral Tradition....................65
CHAPTER 7 JESUS IN CONTEXT Background Sources for the Study of Jesus....................77
Conclusion: Reading the Gospels Seriously....................91
Introduction....................93
SESSION 1 Gnostics and Romans....................95
SESSION 2 Jews and Christians....................99
SESSION 3 Lost Sources and Oral Traditions....................103
SESSION 4 Archaeologists and Artefacts....................107
Notes....................111

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