The Campaign

Elizabeth Karre’s "The Campaign" is a cultured and intelligent tale that grabs your attention from the start and holds it until the final page. Perhaps this is due to Karre’s use of a character that is similar in age to most teenagers. This character, Destiny Davis, shares the same emotions and dif......more

The Campaign is a very short chapter book. If you are looking for a short but good book at the same time then I highly recommend this particular one. The Campaign is the first novel I read from Elizabeth Karre but after I was done reading it I have been left with a huge urge to keep reading more boo......more

Destiny Davis is selected to be a paid intern at a high-powered news agency. She has been personally chosen by the owner (think Ted Turner) based on a series of investigative articles she wrote that were published in her school’s newspaper. She’s worried she’s not qualified, she doesn’t have the ri......more

The Campaign is part of The Opportunity series from Darby Creek Imprint at Lerner Books. It is hi-lo reading and each title has an African-American high school protagonist who is selected by a billionaire to intern in in one of his companies. In this book, Destiny Davis is chosen to work as an inves......more

A new urban series from Lerner along the lines of Surviving Southside. This will no doubt be extremely popular with my students - definitely a hi-lo read and very brief. I wasn't impressed with the writing - I think the Bluford series is much better at this sort of thing. I thought this particular s......more