The date to save

By Stephanie Kate Strohm

Subjects: Reporters and reporting, Juvenile fiction, Competition (psychology), fiction, Fiction, Homecoming, Preparatory schools, Children's fiction, Schools, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Reporters and reporting, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Competition (Psychology), Schools

Description: Angelica Marie Hutcherson is an aspiring reporter for the San Anselmo Prep's newspaper, The Prepster; sophomore Colin Von Kohorn is its editor, who keeps rejecting her stories because they do not reflect his "vision"; but when Colin suggests she write a story on the upcoming Academic Battle, Angelica senses an opportunity--unfortunately somebody has scheduled the Battle (which their school always wins) on the same day as the homecoming game (which they always lose), and to make the chaos complete it is also the day for class elections.