Dancing Barefoot

Dancing Barefoot
Authors
Alice Boyle
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Date
2022-07-16
Size
1.75 MB
Lang
en
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Winner of the 2021 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing

Evie Vanhoutte is a teachers' pet, a basketball star and the most beautiful girl in the year level. Evie Vanhoutte is tall, has long dark hair, a great smile, and for the past four years, Evie Vanhoutte has been the object of my most ardent, heartfelt, and passionate affection. Unrequited affection, of course.

Patch is out of place at Mountford College: she wears the wrong clothes, she's not sporty or popular, she lives in a small flat above her dad's record shop a world away from the leafy suburb where she goes to school. And she has a secret long-term crush on basketball star Evie Vanhoutte. Evie barely knows Patch exists until an accident involving a bottle of ink and Patch's school uniform sparks a friendship that's equal parts exhilarating and terrifying, and very, very confusing.

As if that weren't enough, Patch is also trying to deal with a jealous school bully,...