Alice On The Outside

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Summary: In a Word: AMAZING!
Review: ALICE ON THE OUTSIDE was the very first Alice book I read. I immediately fell in love with the character of Alice, because she is just like me. Not only is she living in the same county of the same state as I am, and is EXACTLY (to the month) the same age in this novel as I was when I read it, but her problems and experiences and emotions are so realistic that I felt like I was reading my own journal. Conversations between Alice and Pamela and Elizabeth, her two best friends, are so real that I felt like I was reading a conversation between me and my own friends. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has the same magic touch as Judy Blume when it comes to answering common but frequently un-asked questions of young teens through realistic characters. Plus, Naylor did an excellent job of intertwining the theme of prejudice with all of Alice's every day experiences. I highly recommend this novel to all pre- and young teens across America.

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Summary: Best Alice book!
Review: Although this book contains some "adult" content, it still is a very good read. Alice learns the value of skin and hair color, when her school sponsers a week of judging people by hair color. A dance is coming up and Alice and her two best friends have fun getting ready for it. Alice's friends also learn some values and one gets sexually abused. This book is really good with a suprising twist! Read it for yourself!

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Summary: A Great Book for Young Teens
Review: I flipped through this book at the library and, while impressed with how well written it was, I was disturbed by the nonxchalant, almost flippant, attitude towards premarital sex and lesbianism. It goes against everything I've been taught. If you want a well written and politically correct book, spring for this one. If you want a wholesome an morally correct book(also well written) spring for something by Stephen Bly or Lori Wick. BTW, I'm a teenager, so don't try to say that's the opinion of an old prude.

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Summary: Great book for a teenager or preteen girl
Review: I really liked this book. I also really like the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In the beginning, this book is about Alice's curiousity. As it goes on, her school promotes some type of an activity all week, dealing with hair-color and prejeducey. One of Alice's friends gets sexually abused by a fellow student, and it's up to Alice to help her to her feet. Near the end, you start hearing about a school dance coming up, and Alice is set to go with her boyfriend, Patrick. But things don't turn out as planned...

I highly recomend this book for the older or mature audience because basically, the Alice series is tremendous.The author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor knows what shes doing. This and the books in this series are truly worth reading. This one is one of my favs in the series. G out and read it!

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Summary: Best Alice book!
Review: Lets cut to the chase. It was great. Enough said. As somebody once said.. "Nobody is quite like Alice, however, she is like everybody." TRUE. And this one proves it. It shows what goes through a teenagers mind and how you would react to it. The Alice series took a sharp turn when it got to this one. The subjects of the storys are starting to get a little more senstive, because you have to admit, a 13 year old can't go around worrying about dumb things in life anymore. And this proves it.. read it, do yourself a favor, and relive memories of when you were a kid.

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Summary: Alice on the outside
Review: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor(author) really describes what it is like to be a teenage girl. Naylor puts all of the problems of being a teenager together, your date getting ill for a big dance, your dad humiliating you by interupting the most intense kiss you have ever had, and not having a mother to talk to about stuff you need a girl to talk to about. In this story all of that happens to Alice when her life gets more complicated then ever. This hilarious must-read will spark the interest of any Jr.High girl.

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Summary: Alice is still AWESOME!
Review: The Alice books have delighted me since 3rd grade(I am now in 8th grade), when I began reading them. I have read 11 of them and can't wait to read the 12th, "The Grooming of Alice". She runs into such familiar cirucumstances and I can so identify with her. If you would like a good laugh and a terrific read, go pick up and Alice book. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, MRS. NAYLOR!

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Summary: Great book for a teenager or preteen girl
Review: Well, I read a lot of Alice books, and all of them are great. I like this book a lot. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote Alice 's life as a eighth grader, with all the changes come to her, it' s very excited book. It tell the real life of a teenager girl, and it also talk a lot about these question that teenager or preteen girls may have but never being answered. It's like a guild for the teenager or preteen girl of what is like to be 14, and a eighth grader.
Read it and you will love it!!!