Download or read book The Cruisers (The News Crew, Book 1) written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth grade is hard enough, but when you're a Cruiser, you're really put to the test. The launch of a new middle-grade series from bestselling award-winner Walter Dean Myers.Zander and his friends, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi start their own newspaper, The Cruiser, as a means for speaking out, keeping the peace, and expressing what they believe. When the school launches a mock Civil War, Zander and his friends are forced to consider the true meaning of democracy and what it costs to stand up for a cause. The result is nothing they could have expected, and everything they could have hoped for.