Kids Are Americans Too

A timely new book explores the rights that AmericanBill O'Reilly, a two-time Emmy Award winner for
kids have. What rights they do-and don't-have mayexcellence in reporting, served as a national
surprise you.correspondent for ABC News and anchor of the
A look at those rights can be found in "Kids Arenationally syndicated news magazine program "Inside
Americans Too," written by four-time No. 1Edition" before becoming executive producer and
best-selling author and veteran television newsanchor of "The O'Reilly Factor."
journalist Bill O'Reilly. His first book for younger fans,He is the author of "The O'Reilly Factor," "The No
"The O'Reilly Factor for Kids," was the No. 1Spin Zone," "Who's Looking Out for You?," "The
best-selling nonfiction title for kids in 2005.O'Reilly Factor for Kids," "Culture Warrior" and the
Back again with a dialogue on rights that may sparknovel "Those Who Trespass," and holds master's
many discussions, O'Reilly and his co-author Charlesdegrees from Harvard's Kennedy School of
Flowers dole out the kind of blunt, commonsenseGovernment and Boston University.
commentary you count on them for. Together, theyCharles Flowers, award-winning author or co-author
explore questions being debated in and out of courtsof 62 books, has also written television
today, including:documentaries, magazine articles, art and theater
• Can a kid wear an anti-gay T-shirt oncriticism, and opinion columns in such publications as
campus?The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review,
• Does a school newspaper have the right toand City Newspaper.
bad-mouth a principal?A former newspaper reporter, high school teacher
• Does a mother have the right to eavesdropand university professor, he wrote the screenplay for
on her daughter's telephone conversations?the feature film "The Nation" and, with composer
Some of the answers may surprise you, and all ofSorrel Hays, the three-act opera "Our Giraffe.
them are likely to make you think.