image of person or book cover 1609622336702150973.jpg
Image courtesy of publisher's website.
y separately published work icon Making Friends with Alice Dyson single work   novel   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Making Friends with Alice Dyson
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Alice Dyson knows exactly how she'll be spending her final year of high school: with her head down, concentrating on her textbooks and homework. She's focused on the future, and nothing is going to get in her way.

'Until a bizarre encounter with the school's most notorious troublemaker derails all her plans, turning Alice into the unwilling centre of attention and her life into one enormous complication.

'And even worse? Now Teddy Taualai won't leave her alone.

'A romantic story about rumours, friendship, and discovering who you really are.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2019 .
      image of person or book cover 1609622336702150973.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 272p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2019.

      ISBN: 9781743056127
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Somerville, Massachusetts,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Walker Books US ,
      2020 .
      image of person or book cover 8717980098755699789.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 304p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 September 2020.
      ISBN: 9781536214789, 1536214787

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Making Friends with Alice Dyson / Taking down Evelyn Tait / Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Anonymous , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 56 no. 3 2022; (p. 72-73)

— Review of Making Friends with Alice Dyson Poppy Nwosu , 2019 single work novel ; Taking Down Evelyn Tait Poppy Nwosu , 2020 single work novel ; Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Poppy Nwosu , 2021 single work novel

'Poppy Nwosu has made an art form of the teen romance, with realistic characters and dialogue that capture that aching self-consciousness and dramatic up and down of adolescent life. Making friends with Alice Dyson (reviewed in English in Australia 54.2 (2019) was the first and Alice, its conscientious protagonist, works hard with not much in her life but study. A brief dance with school troublemaker, Teddy Taualai, goes viral and the reader watches with delight as Alice's initial rebuffs slowly morph into a dance as their friendship grows and changes. Reputation and stereotyping are part of the appeal of this entertaining novel with bullying, identity and anxiety hovering in the wings.' (Introduction)

Reading and Viewing Deborah McPherson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 54 no. 2 2019; (p. 81-85)

— Review of The Dog Runner Bren MacDibble , 2019 single work children's fiction ; Making Friends with Alice Dyson Poppy Nwosu , 2019 single work novel ; Land of Fences Mark Smith , 2019 single work novel ; It Sounded Better in My Head Nina Kenwood , 2019 single work novel
y separately published work icon Astrophysics for Babies and YA Rom-Coms Leanne Hall (presenter), Angela Crocombe (presenter), 2019 18804726 2019 single work podcast

'In the second episode of the Readings Kids Podcast, Leanne and Angela chat about the rom-com boom in YA fiction, high concept board books for babies, and YA twitter.'

Source: Soundcloud.

Reading and Viewing Deborah McPherson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 54 no. 2 2019; (p. 81-85)

— Review of The Dog Runner Bren MacDibble , 2019 single work children's fiction ; Making Friends with Alice Dyson Poppy Nwosu , 2019 single work novel ; Land of Fences Mark Smith , 2019 single work novel ; It Sounded Better in My Head Nina Kenwood , 2019 single work novel
Making Friends with Alice Dyson / Taking down Evelyn Tait / Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Anonymous , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 56 no. 3 2022; (p. 72-73)

— Review of Making Friends with Alice Dyson Poppy Nwosu , 2019 single work novel ; Taking Down Evelyn Tait Poppy Nwosu , 2020 single work novel ; Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Poppy Nwosu , 2021 single work novel

'Poppy Nwosu has made an art form of the teen romance, with realistic characters and dialogue that capture that aching self-consciousness and dramatic up and down of adolescent life. Making friends with Alice Dyson (reviewed in English in Australia 54.2 (2019) was the first and Alice, its conscientious protagonist, works hard with not much in her life but study. A brief dance with school troublemaker, Teddy Taualai, goes viral and the reader watches with delight as Alice's initial rebuffs slowly morph into a dance as their friendship grows and changes. Reputation and stereotyping are part of the appeal of this entertaining novel with bullying, identity and anxiety hovering in the wings.' (Introduction)

y separately published work icon Astrophysics for Babies and YA Rom-Coms Leanne Hall (presenter), Angela Crocombe (presenter), 2019 18804726 2019 single work podcast

'In the second episode of the Readings Kids Podcast, Leanne and Angela chat about the rom-com boom in YA fiction, high concept board books for babies, and YA twitter.'

Source: Soundcloud.

Last amended 9 Nov 2022 15:30:24
X