The Journal of Finn Reardon by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

She resides with her family in Moscow, Pennsylvania. Additionally, she leads workshops offered through the Highlights Foundation. She teaches writing classes at a number of MA and MFA programs, among them Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Since then, her works have received a number of awards, including the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and the Newberry Honor Medal in 2006. Book Quality: Excellent Book Size: 158 Pages Publisher: N/A Date of Addition: 11/17/04 Copyrighted By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti Adult content: No. In 1997, she turned to writing full-time.

She held a rigid routine, waking early in the morning in order to write before she left to teach. Three years later, in 1992, Campbell Bartoletti published her first picture book, Silver at Night. I wanted to practice what I preached, so I joined a writers group and got serious about my own writing.' She sold her first short story in 1989. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell, The Journal of Finn Reardon, a Newsie. In connection with her students, Susan said that 'I felt immense satisfaction in watching my students grow as writers. Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a. Seeing her student write and create original work, she was inspired to create her own. It was published by Scholastic in May 2003. She graduated from the University of Scranton in 1982.Ĭampbell Bartoletti began her career as an eighth-grade English teacher before deciding to pursue writing in earnest. The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie is a fictional diary in the My Name Is America series.

And I don't pull dodges that cheat customers out of their change because I hate it when somebody cheats me.I'm a newsie you can trust.She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. I'm not one of those newsies because I hate it when someone lies to me. Some newsies cheat their customers by stretching the truth or making up headlines just to sell newspapers.By the time the customer realizes he's been suckered, he's blocks away, sitting on a train or trolley, or he's home eating his dinner.īut not me. Newspaper Row is crowded with boys of all sizes, waiting for the afternoon editions to come off the presses.We drink coffee, bolt hot dogs, throw dice, pitch pennies, bet on paper horses, and play alley ball. AS soon as we're free, nearly every fella in my class heads for Newspaper Row. School is a jail for children, but it lets its prisoners out at three o'clock.

Dedication ' This book is dedicated to the Hollins Boot Campers: Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Han Nolan, and Ann Sullivan.' Book description ' May 26, 1899

The Journal of Finn Reardon by Susan Campbell Bartoletti