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'The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems.
'Except, instead of her best friend Daisy's feet on her dash, suddenly Pearl ends up stuck in the middle of the desert beside Obi Okocha, a boy with a mega-watt smile and an endlessly irritating attitude. Tasked with delivering him to the most epic end-of-year party ever, located in a beach shack in literal middle-of-nowhere woop woop, Pearl Nash is certain that nothing could be worse than this.
'She's wrong.
'Add in a breakdown, multiple arguments, an AWOL nana and a kiss that was most definitely a huge mistake, and suddenly Pearl has the perfect ingredients for the perfect disaster.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Other Formats
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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Making Friends with Alice Dyson / Taking down Evelyn Tait / Road Tripping with Pearl Nash
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 56 no. 3 2022; (p. 72-73)
— Review of Making Friends with Alice Dyson 2019 single work novel ; Taking Down Evelyn Tait 2020 single work novel ; Road Tripping with Pearl Nash 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)
-
Making Friends with Alice Dyson / Taking down Evelyn Tait / Road Tripping with Pearl Nash
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 56 no. 3 2022; (p. 72-73)
— Review of Making Friends with Alice Dyson 2019 single work novel ; Taking Down Evelyn Tait 2020 single work novel ; Road Tripping with Pearl Nash 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)
Awards
- 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
