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.
7) 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.
11) 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.
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.
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
The summer before she enters the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, and she discovers that love is about the most mixed-up thing that can possibly happen to you, especially since she has no mother to go to for advice.
20) Patiently Alice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Alice experiences a lot of changes during the summer of her freshmen year when she gets to work as an assistant camp counselor for three weeks, and then returns home to find the orderly world she left behind in turmoil.
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