One day, a boy in the class comes up to her and asks if she could read a story his "friend" wrote, titled "Lost and Found".

Dr. Barnes begins telling the media that the "article is too personally revealing for children, or anyone else," and forbids publication of the "Landry News".

The newspaper receives publicity because of the paper being banned, Cara is interviewed for TV, and a hearing is planned for Mr. Larson.

Tina Hudak, writing for School Library Journal, highlighted how Clements "uses an everyday classroom setting to illuminate words and their importance", including personal issues, such as divorce, as well as academic issues, such as "newspaper analysis, the Constitution, and the First Amendment", which "are introduced and briefly summarized".

[1] Hudak also discussed how the audiobook's narrator, Andrew McCarthy, "uses inflection and tone with subtle voice changes to make the fifth grade girls and boys and the stodgy principal vital and believable characters".