The newspaper kids need a special front page story but their favourite singer, Mandy Miami, is so mysterious, even her fan club don't know how to find her. The world wide web holds the clues but there's a shark surfing the net!

The second title about Hugo, Jasper and the Newspaper Kids. Making headlines and digging up secrets is a dangerous business... .

War has been declared. A rival newspaper has been started and the proprietor is trying to run the Newspaper Kids out of business. They need a brilliant front page story and decide that Mandy Miami - top of the pops, mega star - is the person they MUST interview. But no-one seems to know how to find Mandy Miami - not even her fan-club. The hunt is on, the paparazzi are out, Mandy must be found. The Kids surf the net, send E Mails here there and everywhere to track down the elusive singer. But there's a joker on the internet, who's determined to keep our kids guessing and the joker is..... none other than Mandy Miami herself!


Spooking Sally

by Juanita Phillips

Published 8 October 1996

The Newspaper Kids launch their dare’n’scare competition to scare the fearless Sally Champion out of her skin!

Sally Champion isn’t afraid of anything – high cliffs, fierce dogs, nasty neighbours – nothing can scare her. So the newspaper kids launch a Spooking Sally competition in their newspaper Street Wise and soon the dare’n’scare race is on! And the stakes are high – if Sally remains unspooked she gets to join the newspaper kids’ gang; if she is spooked she doesn’t – and Hugo, Jasper, Frankie and Toby are determined to keep her out!

If a story breaks – the newspaper kids are on the case.


Hugo and Jasper get sent to a holiday camp, but they uncover a mystery that sends them barking up the wrong tree!

When Hugo and Jasper get sent to a holiday camp, everything seems fine from the outside. But as soon as their parents leave, Aunt Marge reveals what a cruel landlady she really is. But at least her son Paddy loves dogs.... loves to put them in a sack, that is, and capture them for his puppy factory. The newspaper kids have to expose the truth in their newspaper Street Wise and soon they find themselves on the trail of the biggest dog-gone story ever published! Using the most modern techniques of E Mail and the internet, our intrepid reporters uncover the truth as well as finding Flossie, an orphan's long lost parents through the world wide web!


The Newspaper Kids

by Juanita Phillips

Published 25 June 1996
When Hugo, Jasper and Toby learn that the old Blue Rock Village Green is going to be closed down, they begin a newspaper to convince the residents of Blue Rock to save their park. Desktop publishing a newspaper presents all kinds of problems, but the kids unite the community to save the park.


Rennie and Graffiti

by Juanita Phillips

Published 26 February 1997