"How do you stand up for truth?"

If you like getting to the bottom of a story and finding out the truth, check out Peeled by Joan Bauer. Hildy reports for The Core, her high school newspaper. Creepy stuff is happening around the old Ludlow house, but Hildy and her friends suspect that the town's local newspaper is really blowing things out of proportion to spook the residents of her small apple-growing community. It seems like there's no way to get the truth out of the mayor and the local paper's editor, but with a lot of hard work and help from the school newpaper advisor and a local cafe owner, Hildy and her classmates discover the real story, which could damage many of the townspeople's livelihoods and turn the town into a tacky tourist trap. Excellent pace, great characters, and for you budding journalists - terrific reporting advice.