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Melinda Metz

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 août 2015

EAN13

9781474700238

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Many of the local school's pupils are falling ill after lunch ... and it's not because of questionable canteen food. It's poison! But there are only two groups affected: the super-cool girls and the comic book fans. Who would hold a grudge against such opposite cliques, and why would they want to poison them? When there's a school mystery that needs solving, the S.M.A.R.T.S. are ready to put their sharp minds to the test! It will take their best critical-thinking skills and scientific reasoning to get to the bottom of this lunchtime puzzle.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 août 2015

EAN13

9781474700238

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

and PoisonPlates

by Melinda Metz

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Cover art and illustrations by Heath McKenzie

AND THE POISON PLATES

Written by Melinda Metz

Illustrated by Heath McKenzie

Zoe Branson held up her mobile phone as she

recorded. “I’m getting an establishing shot,” she said.

“That’s what it’s called in a film when you focus on the

setting. I read about it online last night.”

She and her two best friends, Jaden Thompson and

Caleb Quinn, were standing in the queue at second lunch

on Tuesday. Sometimes waiting for the second lunch

break was a real pain. But that’s just how it was. First

lunch was for Year 8 and Year 9; second lunch was for

Year 6 and Year 7.

“Make sure you get in all the tables and the dinner

queue, everything in the whole room, all the people too,”

Caleb said.

Zoe nodded and scanned the room with her phone,

feeling like a famous Hollywood director.

“But we’re going to be using still photographs

to make our film,” Jaden reminded her. “We’re not

filming it.”

The film was their latest assignment for Tech Team.

The science and robotics club, which all the children

were members of, had started at Hubble School at the

beginning of the year. At their most recent meeting, their

science teacher and club advisor, Mrs Ramanujan – Mrs

Ram for short – had announced they’d be split into groups

to make stopmotion animation films.

With stopmotion, they could make films where it

looked like action figures or other objects were moving

around by themselves. All they had to do was take a

picture of whatever object they decided to use, move it a

tiny bit, take another picture, move it a tiny bit, and keep

on repeating that about a hundred times. Then they would

use special computer software that would take all the

pictures and combine them into a film.

“This is still good practice,” Zoe replied, continuing

to film. “We can use a lot of the same techniques for our

film.” She lowered her phone. “I’ll take some closeups

of the food when we get up there. I read last night that

it’s good to mix up the camera angles you use. When we

take the pictures for our film, we should move the camera

around.”

“If you’re really going to show what the canteen is

like, you have to get some closeups of the Ponies and

the Inferior Five,” Caleb told Zoe.

The Ponies – so called because they always

wore their hair in identical ponytails – were the five

most popular girls at school. At the other end of the

popularity spectrum were the Inferior Five, a group

of boys who loved comic books more than anything.

They loved them so much that they’d formed a club

and named it after the Inferior Five, a group of goofy

superheroes from DC Comics who could solve crimes

when they teamed up.

Zoe, Jaden and Caleb loved comics almost as much

as the Inferior Five did. It was one of the reasons the

three of them had become friends. Though they’d

known each other since preschool, it wasn’t until

they’d joined Tech Team at the beginning of the year

that they’d realized how much they had in common –

namely a love of comics, science fiction, video games,

puzzles and anything to do with science.

The Ponies and the Inferior Five had an ongoing

competition during second lunch – more like a battle –

over which group would be first in the dinner queue. No

one else even bothered trying to get there first anymore.

The competition was pretty evenly matched. Three of

the Inferiors had their last lesson before lunch two doors

down from the canteen. That gave them an advantage

over everyone else.

But the Ponies had Emily Ward. Emily wasn’t one

of the Ponies, despite the fact that she always wore her

wavy red hair in a ponytail. She was a Ponies wannabe,

which meant she did all sorts of favours for the group in

the hope that they’d let her in – including getting into the

queue first. And because Emily’s last class before lunch

was one door down from the canteen, she had a good

head start.

If Emily made it to the canteen first, she’d save

places for all the Ponies. And if an Inferior boy got there

first, he’d save places for all the others in his group.

Today the Ponies had won.

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