Alana Oakley

Alana Oakley returns with her high-school mates - Khalilah, Maddie and Sofia to face new challenges as a Year 8 student at Gibson High and, as usual, Mum isn't making it easy. You'd think, after winning a song-writing contest and meeting the world's hottest rock stars, that life in Year 8 would be sweet, but no, Mum, has other ideas - like getting caught speeding on national television.

Alana goes from hero to zero faster than a Ferrari! Awful? It gets worse. Alana still has to dodge Nurse Cathy, get through Shakespeare Week, survive the soccer match against the undefeated Football Academy's Bruisers, and detention with their History teacher, Mrs Snell, who has a personal collection of medieval torture artefacts. When the gypsy cousin of Alana's superstitious friend, Sofia, predicts they will meet a tall, dark, mysterious stranger, Alana doesn't know who it's meant to be - Bad-Boy Flynn who has just started school or Teen Expert, Dr Gray, who starts dating her mum. There's something dodgy about both of them so Alana sets out to uncover the mysteries.

But Alana gets more than she bargains for. She gets trouble. Double-trouble. Is Flynn the serial arsonist who is setting schools alight? Is Dr Gray a modern Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Can Alana solve the mysteries before her birthday? And will her birthday be another Epic Fail? All will be revealed in another of the chaotic adventures that Alana calls Life. Welcome back to her world!

About the Author

Poppy Inkwell writes a lot of different things. Stories. Mandalas. But not Christmas cards ... or not very often.

When she’s not at her desk writing, you will find her ferreting in car boot sales, experimenting with food gastronomy, or playing with her camera. Born in the Philippines, she now lives by the beach in Australia with one husband, two of her children and four pets (May They Rest In Peace). She has sky-dived once.

Poppy Inkwell has written three books in her new Alana Oakley series. Alana Oakley: Mystery and Mayhem is out now, Alana Oakley: Torment and Trickery is out in July, and the third, Alana Oakley: Bloodlust and Blunders is to be released early in 2016.