Breaking news! Junior high is a jungle! Evie, Leah and Tammythe Predatorsrule the seventh-grade hallway at Litchfield Junior High. Studious (and slightly dorky) Cindy and her friends are the Prey. Cindys defense is to play dead, pretending to be boring so to the mean kids lose interest and leave her alone. Then everything changes when Cindy gets an internship as a cub reporter for the local newspaper. Suddenly, shes chasing down breaking news with a bold young female journalist. Cindy doesnt always get it right, whether shes reporting on town meetings or ghost hunters, falling off her bicycle into her first crush, or figuring out new friendships. But over the course of an exciting year, she learns how to dig for the truth and write a great news story, and she sees how brave journalism can change a neighborhoodor a nation.
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