Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Fifth grade is tumultuous for Alice as she tries to help others through the many changes occurring at home and in school, including learning about sex when Rosalind gets her period and shares a book that explains what is happening.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
Description
While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions.
6) Simply Alice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In her freshman year, fourteen-year-old Alice experiences changes and challenges with friends, family, and school activities, which leave her feeling better about herself than ever before.
8) Girls rule!
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The Malloy girls and the Hatford boys try to outdo each other in a quest to earn money and choose how to participate in the annual Buckman, West Virginia, Strawberry Festival.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After she, her older brother, and their father move from Chicago to Maryland, Alice has trouble fitting into her new third grade class, but with the help of some new friends and her own unique outlook, she survives.
10) Ice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Ashamed of his wimpy younger cousin, eight-year-old Jimmy is determined to keep him out of his special club for rough, tough, and terrible boys, until an accident involving Jimmy's father demonstrates for him the true meaning of courage.
13) All but Alice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in" crowd, no matter how boring and, potentially, difficult.
15) Night cry
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Often left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her traveling-salesman father, Ellen learns, through a terrifying experience, to distinguish between real and false fears.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts.
18) Shiloh season
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
20) Alice alone
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Alice's first year in high school gets off to a difficult start when she and her boyfriend Patrick break up, but with the help of her father, older brother, and best friends, she gains a better sense of her own self-worth.
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