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GREEN GARDEN
“That beats Nick’s design,” she whispered, nodding to the noisy table of boys behind them. “He was waving it about on the bus, wasn’t he, Maya?”
“Yup, and it’s basically a skate park. With a tree in the middle.”
“You didn’t draw that.”
Poppy snatched up her design in a hurry and looked round at Ali and Lucy and Elspeth. They were such good sneaker-uppers, she hadn’t seen them at all. “Yes, I did,” she said stubbornly. Ali had a piece of paper in a smart see-through pink folder, and she snatched it behind her back as she saw Poppy looking at it.
“No copying!” she snapped.
“I don’t want to copy yours...” Poppy started to protest.
Ali smirked. “You don’t need to, do you. You already copied that one.”
Poppy shook her head. “No, I didn’t, I drew it.”
“I bet she copied it straight out of a book,” Elspeth said. “Don’t you think so, Ali?”
“Of course she did,” Ali said scornfully. “No way she came up with that by herself. She cheated.”
“I didn’t copy,” Poppy said faintly, but she was starting to wonder. How much had she copied her
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