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Summary: Laughed until I cried!
Review: I love this book! 'Alice, I Think' is powerfully written and has the ability to sweep us back to our angst filled adolescent years making us laugh out loud. It made me want to buy copies for all of my friends and every adolescent person I know. I look forward to reading more about Alice, her family and her burgeoning group friends.
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Summary: amazing!
Review: I loved alice's adventures. I'm a teen and i found that this is such a great book. this is one of my favourites and it's actually the first book i've read in such a long time that i can't put down. Everyone should at least try reading it.
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Summary: Alice Rules
Review: I loved Alice, I Think. It isn't often (for me, anyway) that a book makes me laugh out loud, but this one did. Alice's quirky take on life, combined with her snarkiness, reminded me (in a good way) of Louise Rennison's Georgia from Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging--only Alice obviously has more fashion sense. Readers lacking in a sense of humor, stay away--Alice isn't the girl for you. But for the rest of us, Alice is a godsend. I can't wait for the sequel...and I'm hoping there will be many more to come.
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Summary: Excellent teen read
Review: I loved this novel and I consider it one of the best young adult novels I've read! The writing is excellent and the story is laugh-out-loud funny. Being able to relate to the weirdness of the main character's life helps. But I think anyone who's known weird people or one who's free time is inordinately littered with literature will enjoy this book.
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Summary: Hilarious book!
Review: I picked up this book thinking it wouldn't be so good, but it is really good!
Alice is the daughter of crazy hippie parents and sister to MacGregor, a genius who breeds fish. Alice has been homeschooled all her life after a somewhat traumatic incident between some other girls in kindergarten. When Alice is 15, she decides to go back to public school.
Alice has a list of things that she wants to do in her life, which leads to her doing and saying things that made me laugh, even if I was in public. Alice's narrative of her day-to-day life is hilarious and perpetually interesting. Many of the things she says, I couldn't help quoting at times. This book is happy and would make for a good, light summer read. I would definitely recommend this book.
~Atalanta
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Summary: A fine book, I think
Review: I read Alice, I Think and found it to be a fantastic portrayal of how life as a teenager can go awry. I thought it was really funny and particularly enjoyed some of Alice's ways of dealing with difficult and odd situations. Many of the other characters also fascinated me. They were all so eccentric. I didn't grow up in a small town, but I still felt that I could relate to the situations she got herself into. All in all, I thought it was a great book and gave it to many of my friends to read.
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Summary: Alice , I think
Review: I recently read this book , thinking that it would be a great book because I could relate to the charecter , being home-schooled.
Let me tell you it was a lot worse then I expected it to be and I found myslef wishing to reach the end soon. Not becuase it was thrilling but because the book was so slow and , I hate to admit , boring!
It was quite bizzare , I kept wondering if Alice ,the main charecter, had some sort of disorder.She is pulled out of first grade after being teased and totured by fellow classmaes and is homeschooled at home untill her counselor suggests high school.
Throught out her journal Alice has life goals , which wa sinteresting to follow. But other then that this book was a little odd and home-schoolers ( aka home based learners --- according to the book) were potrayted as individuals who dont know how to behave in society.
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Summary: A good read, but for these few things....
Review: I saw this book at my library and grabbed it to preview and possibly recommend to my kids. (the cover is very misleading!!!) I will NOT let my kids read this book! All in all, I enjoyed this book. Really. That said, I was a little disappointed at the stab at homeschooling. (Yes, I homeschool). Also, I'm a little unclear about the need for pages (approx) 190-199. Internet porn in a book aimed at young adults, Come on! How is that relevant or appropriate? I would cringe if my almost 13 year old read this. Not that 13 is a young adult but I think it's inappropriate for even a 16 year old. I'm not disillusioned, I am aware that kids that age know about internet porn, but did it need to be included in such detail in an otherwise entertaining and amusing book? I assure you, it added nothing, if anything I think it took something away.
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Summary: Alice, I think
Review: I was disappointed with this book. It could have truly been amazing. Especially from the start. I was so in hopes Alice would have been a dwarf or a pixie of some kind. Instead, she's home schooled. Sure I had problems in first grade too. I was picked on because I didn't look normal. I almost got my nose broke, but my parents didn't take me out of school. Seriously, I think homeschoolers will find this book putting down alternative education which is so untrue.
I love diary-style books but this one just didn't take me there like most young adult books do. There wasn't the emotion one can't help but turn the page for as in books like ALT ED.
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Summary: I just couldn't stomach this book
Review: I was homeschooled all through elementary and middle school, not because I had issues being at school but simply because my parents never thought to send me. It was a natural feeling for me, being at "home" most of the time (though obviously I was out a lot, either at friends houses or museums or classes, etc.), and I don't feel that I lost anything from being homeschooled. In all honesty, I think that I am all the better for it. I spent 4 months in middle school, the last four months of 8th grade, and by the end of that short period of time I had no idea how anyone could stand to be there any longer, let alone three full YEARS. But I enjoyed myself well enough, got what I could out of high school (I went for 2 1/2 years) and now I'm back to homeschooling.I'm starting out with that because I was originally interested in this book because the jacket talks about how Alice was a homeschooler and is now going to go to high school. "Hey," I thought. "Here's a book about what I did." Wrong. Not only does this book hardly focus on Alice returning to public, "real" education. It also makes homeschoolers look like total weirdoes, incapable of fitting in with normal society. I found it insulting that people would read this book and draw INCORRECT conclusions from it about how I'd grown up, and about others who'd been homeschooled. On a more technical, less personal note, I found Juby's writing to be insipid, her characters annoying, and the plot downright boring. I couldn't care less about Alice, or her "problems." She came across not as a young teenager trying to find herself, but as a stupid little girl incapable of thinking for herself. I had absolutely no sympathy for her and really just found her annoying. I don't often come across books that I simply can/will not deal with. This is one of those rarities, and I suggest that you pass it by for something more worthwhile. I even went so far as to return it to the store I'd bought it back, considering it to have been a complete waste of my money.
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