The Inside Scoop

Chenée Marrapodi

A sweet-natured contemporary story about facts, friendship and finding your tribe suitable for readers who love Kayla Miller’s Click or Nova Weetman’s The Edge of Thirteen.

Twelve-year-old Poppy Porter feels like she has to hide who she really is if she wants to survive high school with her best friend – and that means talking about the news is 100% off limits!

But when Poppy accidentally finds out the school oval is about to be dug up and replaced by a new classroom block, she thinks she’s struck gold and found a massive scoop to break on the school news website. However, the principal has a hidden agenda. When Poppy finds herself banned from reporting on negatives like the loss of green space, she decides to take matters into her own hands. She forms an underground news team to report the truth in order to save the oval and hopefully, her friendship.

A sweet-natured contemporary story about facts, friendship and finding your tribe.

Release
Mar-2027
ISBN
9781761183126
RRP (AUD)
$17.99
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Category
Middle Grade Fiction

Chenée Marrapodi

Chenée Marrapodi is a writer, journalist and podcaster living in Perth. She is the author of One Wrong Turn, shortlisted for the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards, and Breaking Pointe.
A passion for storytelling led Chenée to a career in journalism, where she has worked for many years as a reporter and producer for channel Seven and Nine, and online.

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