All the Little Tricky Things
$14.75
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2022
Summary
It’s the start of the summer holidays and twelve-year-old Bertie is worried. Next year she’s going to a high school in the city, while all her friends stay behind in Merri, the small town she’s lived in all her life.
To help her feel better prepared for high school, her best friend, Claire, makes a list of tasks Bertie has to complete over the summer. They start working through the list together, only to find that some of the cracks in their friendship are beginning to show. Soon, Ber…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922458377 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922458376 |
| Author: | Karys McEwen |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm |
| Audience Age: | 8 |
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This debut middle-grade novel is a gentle and empathetic story about navigating the period between primary and high school, as well as the complex ways in which adolescent female friendships change and grow. Eleven-year-old Bertie is a shy daydreamer who is nervous about the future and uncertain of her place in the world. Bertie’s parents have saved up so she can attend ‘a posh private school in the city’ but all Bertie’s friends will be at the local high school in Merri, the regional town where she lives. Bertie frets about leaving her comfort zone and being unprepared for what’s to come. All the Little Tricky Things centres around the epic Summer List that Bertie’s outgoing best friend Claire makes to boost Bertie’s confidence before high school starts. Yet Claire seems to be growing up a whole lot faster than Bertie, and Bertie feels pressured to do the same. First kisses, leg-shaving and breaking the law are just some of the daunting tasks Claire has set. Will the list ultimately cause a rift between the friends, or will it allow Bertie to forge her own path? Karys McEwen’s prose is gorgeous and she deftly traverses the highs and lows of tweenhood with a rich cast of characters. Ideal for 8-12-year-olds, All the Little Tricky Things will appeal to fans of Maddie in the Middle and The Edge of Thirteen. Charlotte Callander is a freelance writer and a bookseller at Antipodes Bookshop and Gallery.
About The Author
Karys McEwen
Karys McEwen is a school librarian, education advisor for Melbourne Writers Festival, and project officer for Reading Australia and the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE). She is a member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victorian Branch committee, and the Committee on Standards for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She is passionate about the role libraries and stories play in the lives of young people, and she writes the Substack newsletter ‘I Read A Lot’. Her two middle grade novels, All the Little Tricky Things and The Paperbark Tree Committee, were published by Text Publishing.
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