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Author Daddo, Andrew, author

Title One step / Andrew Daddo
Published [Melbourne, Victoria] : Penguin Books Australia, 2016
©2016

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Description 237 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Summary At 15, Dylan is struggling. He's struggling with his explosive acne that has declared war on his face, struggling with his pushy younger sister, struggling with his nagging mum and her lame and misguided attempts to 'connect' with him, struggling with his dad who never seems to have time for him anymore, struggling with his retarded old phone-me-down courtesy of Hamish Banning pushing him and his iPhone off Jump Rock into the harbour, and he's struggling with his constant preoccupation with sex combined with his complete inability to attract any girl. Struggling, but surviving. But when his English teacher reads out Dylan's creative writing piece to the class, revealing him to be a sensitive and perhaps promising writer (though in some classmates' opinion, pretty gay), it sets off a chain of events, including unlikely interest from a few hot girls and a viscous physical and verbal bullying attack, which sends Dylan on a frantic roller coaster of emotions culminating in a revelation that could make or break his survival
Analysis Australian
Audience For children
Subject Adolescent psychology -- Fiction.
Adolescent psychology -- Juvenile fiction.
Adolescent psychology.
Adolescent psychology -- Young adult fiction
Bullying -- Juvenile fiction.
Bullying -- Fiction.
Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Young adult fiction
Young adult fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 9780143573616