Another reader by Stephen Speight (1992, Klett, 40 pages with illustrations, English Readers series, Early stage 6). This one is aimed at younger kids, obviously 6th grade and is also available on audio cassette (I haven't heard that). Few questions, almost no vocabulary.
Detective, sabotage plot about 2 competing teams of school newspaper reporters. Again, the main character is a girl. Fun, timeless plot with a happy ending, not involving pregnant teens or similar, but so fewer stuff for discussion. Timeless (replace diskette by USB stick or computer with cell phone and app/SMS). A bit unrealistic. But one of the best of that author (by now).
A kid of one team breaks in the house of the competing team, putting a virus on their computer (by just leaving a diskette in the drive for some seconds (without typing anything)). The computer is defective and playing a game and has to be tricked (sounds a bit like the 1983 movie WarGames). Schoolsell is the name of the paper, then renamed to Bargain Bazaar. Advertiser is the oppenent's paper.
SCHOOLSELL good -
BARGAIN BAZAAR better
At the ADVERTISER
Murderer - what murderer?
It's a virus
The detectives
Caught red-handed
Can you kill our virus?
You can't catch me
Two papers are better than one
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