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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Taking Down Evelyn Tait
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'Impulsive Lottie – heavy-metal fan, expert tomato-grower and frequent visitor to the principal’s office – is in even more trouble than usual.

'Her best friend Grace has dropped an unlikely bombshell: she’s dating Lottie’s mortal enemy, good-girl Evelyn Tait.

'Studious Jude, the boy next door, has the perfect war plan. Lottie will beat Evelyn at her own good-girl game, unveiling Miss Perfect’s sinister side in the process.

'Taking life more seriously starts as fun, but soon offers its own rewards . . . so long as Lottie can manage gorgeous Sebastian’s sudden interest, Jude acting weird, and the discovery that she might actually be good at something.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2020 .
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      Extent: 264p.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2020.
      ISBN: 9781743056974

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)

Book Review : Taking down Evelyn Tait by Poppy Nwosu Erich Mayer , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , June 2020;

— Review of Taking Down Evelyn Tait Poppy Nwosu , 2020 single work novel
y separately published work icon Live Recording : A LoveOzYA All Stars Panel Jo Case (interviewer), 2020 23470738 2020 single work podcast interview

'YA Publisher Jo Case hosts a discussion with four Australian YA Authors: Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Kay Kerr and Anna Whateley. This is a live recording of an online event hosted via Zoom during the Covid-19 crisis.'  (Production summary)

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)

Book Review : Taking down Evelyn Tait by Poppy Nwosu Erich Mayer , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , June 2020;

— Review of Taking Down Evelyn Tait Poppy Nwosu , 2020 single work novel
y separately published work icon Live Recording : A LoveOzYA All Stars Panel Jo Case (interviewer), 2020 23470738 2020 single work podcast interview

'YA Publisher Jo Case hosts a discussion with four Australian YA Authors: Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Kay Kerr and Anna Whateley. This is a live recording of an online event hosted via Zoom during the Covid-19 crisis.'  (Production summary)

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