Adam Canfield the Last Reporter

by Michael Winerip, Unknown Author

A dirty school election, suspicious state test scores—Adam Canfield and his middle-grade star reporters are chasing some red-hot leads. There’s only one the school board has shut down the Slash for exposing the town’s most powerful family, and now the staff has to find a way to publish it themselves. Enter the Ameche brothers, two goofy kid entrepreneurs with a knack for refurbishing junk and a talent for selling ads, but a shaky command of journalistic ethics. What’s worse, Adam hasn’t a clue why co-editor Jennifer is acting weird. With kid-friendly humor and a touch of budding romance, this new adventure revisits a winning cast of characters—and the excitement that comes from uncovering a really great story. In this, the third Adam Canfield book, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter Michael Winerip delights listeners yet again with an action-packed story about always-on-the-run Adam. Like Adam Canfield of the Slash and Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! this audiobook gets the story—and gets it right.

First published August 25, 2015

About the author

"When Michael Winerip leaves a phone message, no one worries too much about calling him back. But when Michael Winerip of the New York Times leaves a phone message, the call gets returned fast.

"Those are the special powers I wanted to give Adam Canfield and the whole Slash staff at Harris Elementary/Middle School. Adam, Jennifer and Phoebe have the power to correct serious wrongs-- based not on their popularity or connections but their ability to write a true news story that gets to the bottom of things.

"Words give them super powers."

Besides being a children's book author, Mike Winerip is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times. In his 25 years with the Times, he has done a number of assignments, including investigative reporter, magazine staff writer, national political correspondent based in Ohio, national education columnist, deputy metro editor, suburban columnist and he is currently the parenting columnist for the paper. Before the Times, he worked at three smaller papers, The Miami Herald, Rochester Times-Union and Louisville Courier-Journal, where he covered Appalachia out of a one-man bureau in Hazard, Ky. His work as a reporter has taken him into some of the poorest housing projects in America, the worst mental institution in Mexico, major corporate board rooms and the White House. He is a product of the Quincy, Mass public schools, a graduate of Harvard and lives in Lido Beach, NY with his wife and four children.

--from the author's website