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Greetings and love-heart emojis! How lovely to be the guest editor of this Valentinetastic love issue of Scoop. When I was younger, I loved my family, and all our pets, but imagined other references to love always required rings, romantic poetry and

Love is very hard to explain and there are many ways of describing it. It is a feeling of warmth, it is caring very deeply about another person or thing, it is putting other people’s needs before our own, it is being prepared to do anything to make s

‘Do I have to wear this?’ I said, tugging at the bow-tie around my neck and pulling the super-tight shorts out of my bottom. ‘I look like a ventriloquist’s dummy.’ ‘You look very smart,’ said Mum. ‘Grandma bought you that outfit. She’ll be excited to

I always make up dares. Because I never lose them, and today was no different... at least I thought it wasn’t . I came up with the worst dare that there could possibly be ... something SO awful and SO gross – there was NO WAY it would be ME! I stood

I bet you can name a million things you don’t think you’re good at. But now think of ten things about yourself that you love, without cringing, going red or feeling like a show off … it’s not so easy. It’s a terrible trait to be self-deprecating, mea

Chris Young works as a children’s specialist for Golden Hare Books, an independent bookshop based in Edinburgh – this involves trying out all sorts of ways to get kids into reading. She also works as a part-time librarian, doing a similar job! She ha

The Gift of Evil by Frank Hinks, is a book set in England and the fantasy world of Ramion, which is magical … anything can happen. This is the twelfth book about Ramion. Griselda the witch is an important character in the series and this book explain