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Reluctantly Alice

Reluctantly Alice

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991FamilyFamily lifeJunior high schoolsSingle-parent families in fictionJuvenile fiction
4.0
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First lines

IN SEVENTH grade, you grow backwards.

About this book

Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.

Themes & subjects

FamilyFamily lifeJunior high schoolsSingle-parent families in fictionJuvenile fictionSingle-parent families
First published 1991

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Setting

Ocean CityMarylandChicagoTacoma ParkBarcelonaCopenhaganAustriaWashingtonMexicoRussiaCivil War20th Century: 1992

About the author

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

4 January 1933

"Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade."--From Wikipedia

Author

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

First published

1991

Pages

207

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

18

Languages

English, German

Publisher

Yearling

ISBN

9780440803096

Where to buy

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