The Last Reporter by Michael Winerip

Author:Michael Winerip [Winerip, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6407-7
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2009-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

As he cranked the handle toward Shadow’s birth date, he kept stopping to read the comics and old baseball stories. He’d never heard of most of the players. Adam checked the standings. There was a baseball team in the National League called the Montreal Expos. He’d never heard of them. It made him wonder what the heck an Expo was. Scrolling through the inside pages, he saw an ad for TVs — they looked so small and fat! A story described how movie companies were complaining about illegal, pirated VCR tapes. Adam skimmed the story and wondered why there was nothing about DVDs and then remembered — DVDs weren’t invented yet. And iPods weren’t invented. What would Stub Keenan have done? Given out pirated VCR tapes of Blink-182 concerts, probably. It made Adam wish that he could go back in time. He’d be so smart, knowing everything that was going to happen.

It was a funny feeling reading about all this normal stuff that was going on back before you were born.

He finally reached the front page for Shadow’s birthday and then for the day after, a Saturday. Adam checked the weather report first, like Mrs. Stanky had told them. Shadow had been born on a sunny October day with temperatures in the mid-sixties and winds out of the south at twenty miles an hour. There was a small-craft warning for boating on the Tremble River.

Next, Adam read a few paragraphs of each front-page story and made notes. Angry motorists were complaining about gas prices going up to $1.50 a gallon. The president was Bill Clinton, and a story said he was fighting with Congress about — actually, as far as Adam could tell, just about everything. A three-car crash on the Beltway killed two people and snarled traffic for four hours.

But it was a piece on the bottom right of the front page that sent such a chill through him, he put down his pen and read every word.

The headline said:

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