Alice: The Agony of Alice (Series #1) (Paperback)

from fingerpost

(The Agony of Alice is the first Alice book Naylor wrote, but the fourth if one is reading chronologically as she grows up.) The Mikenley's (Alice, her father, and her older brother, starting college) move to a new home and she will be stating a new school. Alice sets out to find the perfect moth...

from Omrythea

Eleven year old Alice, growing up without a mother, decides she will "adopt" a mother and hopes to be in a popular teacher's class. When she is instead placed in frumpy Mrs. Plotkin's class, she learns that it is what's inside a person that counts more. Mixed in to the story are Alice's encounter...

from abbylibrarian

In this first book in the Alice McKinley series, Alice is in 6th grade and starting over at a new school. Her mother died when she was little and now Alice decides that she needs a female role model because she feels embarrassed at some of the 'childish' mistakes she's made. She sets her sights o...

from francescadefreitas

The first chapter threw me a bit, with Alice looking back over the 'mistakes' of her past, but once she moved into the present, I was entirely charmed by her voice. Alice is 11, starting at a new school, and wants terribly not to do anything awful, and to find a mother. Needels to say these two w...

from francescadefreitas

The first chapter threw me a bit, with Alice looking back over the 'mistakes' of her past, but once she moved into the present, I was entirely charmed by her voice. Alice is 11, starting at a new school, and wants terribly not to do anything awful, and to find a mother. Needels to say these two w...