The e-Revolution

Age range 12+

Jolie and her friends Charlotte, Bronwyn and Hayley are at war with three boys in Year 9 at school. It's a love/hate relationship, where they set each other up with dares and the losers have consequences.

When the boys win a bet, the girls cry ‘Unfair!’ However, their plan for revenge backfires and leads to the principal banning all e-scooters from school premises and insisting students must follow government regulations, which means they can only ride a scooter with an adult. How can they get to school? To their jobs?

Jolie and her friends want to fix things, but what can they achieve on their own? Is the only person who can help the one person Jolie doesn’t want to turn to?

The e-Revolution is in the Rhiza Shorts series – a short read designed to engage teenage reluctant readers, including those who struggle with confidence in reading. With a reading age of 10+ and an interest age of 14+, The e-Revolution features relatable situations and fun characters who teens can identify with. It also tackles the issues surrounding e-scooters with realism and compassion while still focusing on responsibility and safety.

About the Author

Catriona McKeown is an established, award-winning author. She has three full-length contemporary Young Adult novels published: The Boy in the Hoodie (winner of Caleb’s Unpublished Manuscript Award 2017), Memphis Grace (Winner of the Australian Family Therapist Award 2020), and Good Luck and Other Lies.

Catriona is an Australian High School teacher, working primarily with students with additional needs. She also helps students develop their entrepreneurial skills to create solutions to today’s problems. She lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.