All But Alice

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Summary: Awsome Book
Review: All but Alice is a fantastic book written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The author makes you feel like you are Alice. Alice is a selfconcious young lady. Elizabeth, is vein, and Pamela is enthusiastic. Alice started seventh grade, and also joined the All Stars Fan Club and the earring club. She becomes one of the famous eight. Still there are situations to fix. Can she be a sister with girls who want to be her brother's (Lester) girlfriend? What will she do when her father dates her teacher, Miss Summers? So why don't you read the book and find out.
This book is a MUST READ! The reader can learn not to worry about everything or else it might turn out bad. You actually feel like you're in Alice's body. It's easy to put a picture in your mind. You feel like you're actually in that world, as Alice.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is a great author. Her parents read to her and sang songs that were actually stories. She could hardly wait to read and write her own books. Her books are about things she heard or read, all mixed up with her imaginations. All But Alice is a terrific book and I think you should read it along with some of her other books.

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Summary: It is about fitting in with certain peers*
Review: All but Alice was a great book to read. It is about when Alice wants a bulletin board, her ears pierced, and even joins two clubs-The Earring Club and the All-Stars Fan Club. She works at the Melody Inn for three hours and wants to be part of the "in" crowd at school.
Alice may act different in this book out of the other books, but I know how that feels. You act different when you are in a different and a snobbier club and then realize of how idiotic you were to people who didn't pick on you at all.
It is not like Alice picks on anyone in this novel, but it was cruel of her to embarrass her friend Elizabeth like that. One of the Three Handsome Stooges likes and picks on Alice a lot. Alice feels different and one of the Popular and the Beautiful people at her school.
But the truth is, Alice gets so sick of Brian (one of the 3 Stooges) picking on her. Even in one of the chapters, he puts her face in the snow for fun like it is funny. And on Valentine's Day, her ex-boyfriend Patrick comes over and gives her a big box of chocolates.
Alice didn't realize that she had to share them with him for some weird reason. So Lester tells her that and she reinvites him over.
Lester has a Woman Situation again! Loretta Jenkins (who works at his dad's store) likes him! Lester just wants to take a break from dating and concentrate on homework. Or, in other words, L-I-F-E. Meaning a "non-female-dating-crisis" life.
And turns out that Alice's dad goes out with her 7th-grade Language Arts teacher Miss Summers. Again. And he gives her a Vivaldi cassette. AND, turns out that Alice becomes herself again, kisses Patrick again (because he threw up on the bus and Brian told Alice to make fun of him when he comes back but she comes to the rescue and they talk and then kiss on the bus. Yep. Just like that!), and quits the Earring Club (I think) and the All-Stars Fan CLub.
The letter Alice wrote to a famous rock-star was very funny. Even though it was a joke, the person in charge of it mailed it to the star!
This was a good book for peoples out there who have trouble fitting in with the right people. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is a great author and knows how to describe a junior-high girl's life today.
So if you're bored, then I suggest reading All But Alice.

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Summary: Awsome Book
Review: GREAT!! This story is very realistic and I wholeheartedly recommend it with the usual warning I give when reviewing Alice books: Only read this yourself, kids, or ,adults, give this book to someone if you are sure they will not faint if they see read some sexual things, which they're are a lot of in the Alice books.

Again, this a wonderful book and really provides an insight into a young girl's mind. I actually suggest boys read the Alice series to get a little understanding of how girl's minds work.

Blessed BE!! :) :) :) :)

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Summary: What can I say? GREAT, THAT'S WHAT!
Review: GREAT!! This story is very realistic and I wholeheartedly recommend it with the usual warning I give when reviewing Alice books: Only read this yourself, kids, or ,adults, give this book to someone if you are sure they will not faint if they see read some sexual things, which they're are a lot of in the Alice books.

Again, this a wonderful book and really provides an insight into a young girl's mind. I actually suggest boys read the Alice series to get a little understanding of how girl's minds work.

Blessed BE!! :) :) :) :)

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I had to read this book for a book report last year. When I first looked at it I thought it would be stupid, but as soon as I started reading it I changed my mind. It is an excellent book and will make you laugh for sure. Take my advice. It is soooooooooo good.

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Summary: How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people...??
Review: It's a new year, a new semester, a new chapter in the life of Alice McKinley, and she couldn't be happier. Alice is suddenly elevated to the ranks of the beautiful people, part of the "Famous Eight." And all because she pierced her ears??? Hmm...The fourth book of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice McKinley series continues the humorous yet realistic trend of the previous installments with great sucess:

Alice's father is now dating the beautiful Ms. Summers, and Lester is...serious about a girl? What shock. Alice and Pamela both get their ears pierced and join the Earring Club. Unfortunately, this leaves Elizabeth out on her own, and Alice isn't entirely sure this is what she wants. Paired off (via a list taped to a blackboard) with the "best looking boy in the whole 7th grade," Alice finds that she still infintely prefers her special friend Patrick. Above all, Alice continues to approach each situation with her good humoured, though easily embarassed, personality.

Hey, what can I say? Yet another good book in the Alice McKinley series. But look out! Things only get better (an definitely funnier) from here on...

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Summary: All but Alice
Review: The author of this book is Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The main character in this book is Alice. Alice is regular teenage girl. It takes place in Maryland in present time. When all the other girls are doing something, she will do it too, so as not to be different. For example, when everyone was in the talent show at school, she was in it too, when she did not even want to be.
Alice goes through lots of awkward situations. She has to deal with her dad dating one of her teachers, Miss Summers, getting her ears pierced, belonging to an earring club, getting popular, and helping her brother and his girlfriends out.
I think that this is a good book. I picked because it looked like it was a book I could relate to. When I read it, I realized I could relate to the feelings in her situations, and I ended up liking the book a lot. I would recommend this book to girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen, because that is around the age of Alice, and most of her situations revolve around that.

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Summary: This book is all about Alice!!!
Review: The author of this book is Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The main character in this book is Alice. Alice is regular teenage girl. It takes place in Maryland in present time. When all the other girls are doing something, she will do it too, so as not to be different. For example, when everyone was in the talent show at school, she was in it too, when she did not even want to be.
Alice goes through lots of awkward situations. She has to deal with her dad dating one of her teachers, Miss Summers, getting her ears pierced, belonging to an earring club, getting popular, and helping her brother and his girlfriends out.
I think that this is a good book. I picked because it looked like it was a book I could relate to. When I read it, I realized I could relate to the feelings in her situations, and I ended up liking the book a lot. I would recommend this book to girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen, because that is around the age of Alice, and most of her situations revolve around that.

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Summary: Not the best Alice book
Review: There are few books in the Alice series that disappoint me, but this is one of them. This book just doesn't seem to belong in the Alice series, because in this books, Alice does not act like Alice. IF this were not part of the series, I might enjoy it more. Alice acts frankly like a conceited brat in All But Alice, which is certainly not her true nature at all. FOr a better Alice read, try Achingly Alice or Alice Alone.

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Summary: One of the funnier Alice books!
Review: This book takes us through the winter of Alice's seventh grade year. She falls in with the popular crowd and learns what it is like to be one of the beautiful people, or "Famous Eight" as they're referred to. But the more "in" she becomes, the more "out" Elizabeth seems to be; leading Alice to miss the simple days when she, Elizabeth, and Pamela were close friends. Alice has some serious thoughts about whether it's worth the boredom to be popular or whether she should just be herself. The subplot involving Lester's love life (Marilyn, Christal, and now Loretta thrown in the mix) and Alice's fathers love life (will he propose to Miss Summers?) make for some of the novels funnier moments. This is one Alice book you don't want to miss, with some thoughtful lessons about acceptance and popularity thrown in.