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design out of Cam Morris’s book? Maybe she was cheating. She stared down at her beautiful design, her eyes troubled, and Ali smirked at her two sidekicks.
“See? Look at her. She’s gone all red. You’re such a cheat, Poppy. Mr Finlay’s going to be so disappointed.”
She’d copied the way the little hedges surrounded the flowers from those photos in the book, Poppy realised. And it was a book by Cam Morris – he’d recognise it, wouldn’t he? So even if she won the competition at school, when all the different schools sent their designs in, he’d spot it at once.
Poppy stuffed the drawing into her bag, crumpling it a little. She didn’t care any more. She couldn’t give it in now. She felt her eyes burning, and bit hard into her bottom lip. No way was she going to let Ali see her cry. But she felt so stupid. She’d been really, really proud of her design, and she hadn’t even thought that it was copied.
“Don’t listen to her,” Izzy hissed as Mr Finlay came in and started to do the register. “Poppy, you know how horrible she is. It’s a brilliant design.”
Poppy sniffed and put her pencil case back in her rucksack on top of her entry form. She didn’t even want to be able to see it.
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