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Name: The Agony of Alice

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Year: 1985
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Young adult, Children, Humor

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ISBNs:
9780689816727
9781442423633
0689816723
1442423633

Life, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment. Here she is, about to be a teenager and she doesn't know how. It's worse for her than for anyone else, she believes, because she has no role model. Her mother has been dead for years. Help and advice can only come from her father, manager of a music store, and her nineteen-year-old brother, who is a slob. What do they know about being a teen age girl? What she needs, Alice decides, is a gorgeous woman who does everything right, as a roadmap, so to speak. If only she finds herself, when school begins, in the classroom of the beautiful sixth-grade teacher, Miss Cole, her troubles will be over. Unfortunately, she draws the homely, pear-shaped Mrs. Plotkin. One of Mrs. Plotkin's first assignments is for each member of the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. Alice calls hers "The Agony of Alice, " and in it she records all the embarrassing things that happen to her.

Through the school year, Alice has lots to record. She also comes to know the lovely Miss Cole, as well as Mrs. Plotkin. And she meets an aunt and a female cousin whom she has not really known before. Out of all this, to her amazement, comes a role model -- one that she would never have accepted before she made a few very important discoveries on her own, things no roadmap could have shown her. Alice moves on, ready to be a wise teenager.

This book is part of the "Alice" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Now I'll Tell You Everything"
First published in 2013
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"Alice on Her Way"
First published in 2005
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"Including Alice"
First published in 2004
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"Patiently Alice"
First published in 2003
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"Simply Alice"
First published in 2002
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"The Grooming of Alice"
First published in 2000
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"Alice on the Outside"
First published in 1999
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"Achingly Alice"
First published in 1998
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"Outrageously Alice"
First published in 1997
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"Alice in Lace"
First published in 1996
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"Alice the Brave"
First published in 1995
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"Alice In-Between"
First published in 1994
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"Alice in April"
First published in 1993
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"All But Alice"
First published in 1992
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"Reluctantly Alice"
First published in 1991
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"Alice in Rapture, Sort of"
First published in 1989
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"Alice Alone"
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"Alice in the Know"
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"Alice in Charge"
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"Alice on Board"
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"Incredibly Alice"
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