Cheat

Name: Cheat
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Kristin Butcher
ISBN: 9781459805613

Author: Kristin Butcher

Series: Orca Currents

Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw

Unabridged: 1 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 04/01/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, School

Synopsis

Laurel discovers her passion for investigative journalism when she writes an article for her school paper about a person experiencing homelessness who's been living at the school. Eager to write more articles with impact, she launches an investigation of a cheating scam at her high school. Laurel's efforts cause her classmates to turn against her. Nobody is interested in seeing her article go to print, not even her own brother. It is evident that the cheating is widespread, and Laurel, caught up in the thrill of the investigation, is willing to risk her reputation to get the story, but her ultimate discovery changes everything.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brooklyn

The Cheat is a book based on five kids who all need to pass a test but all didn’t study. This girl named Sarah has a sister who took this test a few years beforehand. Jake stole the test that her sister had taken before so he had the answers for his own test. At school the next day Jake gave a girl......more

Goodreads review by - ̗̀ bibliophile ̖́-

It was of an alright novel. The insights of emotions each character portrays throughout the course of the book was wonderfully written. Cheating is of a serious matter and can lead to getting caught. The end of this book was impressively intruiging. Looking back at the aspects of the book, the poems......more

Goodreads review by Samantha

a good read i hope i can find more from this author......more

Goodreads review by Caroline

This book that I read was called the Cheat by Amy Goldman Koss and the genre is realistic fiction. This novel is about 3 kids who ended up cheating their midterm as eight graders and got caught by the principal. Sarah got the answers from a nerd who's older sibling is very smart and got all of the c......more