Making Friends with Alice Dyson

Alice Dyson expects to spend her final year of high school quietly focused on textbooks and homework, following her parents' expectations. That plan changes when she forms an unexpected friendship with Teddy Taualai, a student regarded as a school outcast. The novel follows Alice as this connection shifts the way she approaches senior year and her own sense of self. Rumors, friendship, and the tension between expectations and change shape her story.