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Description edit
Laurie Hertzel wasn't yet a teenager in Duluth, Minnesota, when she started her first newspaper, which she appropriately christened Newspaper. Complete with the most sensational headlines of the day-MARGO FLUEGEL HAS ANOTHER BIRTHDAY!-and with healthy competition from her little brothers and... read more
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Summary edit
This is a memoir of a life in journalism--a funny, true story about a young woman who got a job answering phones at the local paper and ended up a columnist. In between she made a bunch of mistakes, crashed a staff car, and went to Russia.
Setting & Locations edit
Most of this is set in Duluth, at the Duluth News Tribune, but with side trips to the Soviet Union and to Duke University in North Carolina
- Duluth: the newsroom of the Duluth News-Tribune
- Russia: Petrozaovdsk, Leningrad and Moscow.
- Durham, North Carolina: the campus of Duke University, where the author had a fellowship
- Petrozavodsk
- Minnesota
- Moscow
- Leningrad
- Soviet Union
- Wisconsin
- Minneapolis
- Finland
- North Shore
- Karelia
- Hibbing
- Michigan
- California
- Washington
First Sentence edit
I was eleven or twelve when I decided that journalism was my future. I loved to write, I loved to snoop, I always wanted to know everything first. Those are pretty much the only qualifications, when you get right down to it.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Laurie Hertzel (Author)
Awards edit
- Minnesota Book Award (2011: Reader's Choice, Winner)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 977
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsThis would be a great book for young adults, particularly young women, as it tells the story of a persevering and stubborn young woman who rose through the ranks of journalism through grit and determination.
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