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—dragnfly *“I feel like Alice is my next door neighbor and Elizabeth lives
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is my childhood best friend. Sometimes I wish soooooo badly Alice and
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After four years of hoping, wishing, scheming, and waiting, the moment Alice
has been yearning for has at long last arrived… . Alice’s dad is finally marrying
Sylvia Summers! Alice always knew they were perfect for each other when she
set them up back in seventh grade, but she’s relieved that The Big Day is here.
She’s never felt so excited, so vindicated, so grown-up, and so … well, so left
out. Now that the wedding is really happening, no one has time for Alice
anymore, and the situation just gets worse when Sylvia moves into their house.
Nothing is the way Alice thought it would be. Her dad and Sylvia have their new
life together; Lester has his new apartment; and Alice feels like she’s on her own
for the first time in her life.
She’s also starting to notice that even though Dad and Sylvia are perfectly happy
together, not everyone gets along so well. Elizabeth and Ross never see each
other; Leslie and Lori are breaking up; Pamela and her mother can’t seem to find
a way to even talk to each other; and Alice herself has started to hear some
surprising rumors about Patrick …
As Alice watches her friends sort out their problems and sees her dad and Sylvia
navigate their new marriage, she starts to understand all the hard work that goes
into relationships and how even when people seem to be meant for each other,
it’s not always easy to be together.
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR
writes for both children and adults, and is the author of more than one hundred
books, including Starting with Alice; Alice in Blunderland; The Agony of Alice;
Alice in Rapture, Sort of; Reluctantly Alice; All but Alice; Alice in April; Alice
In-Between; Alice the Brave; Alice in Lace; Outrageously Alice; Achingly
Alice; Alice on the Outside; The Grooming of Alice; Alice Alone; Simply Alice;
and Patiently Alice. In 1992 her novel Shiloh won the Newbery Medal. Mrs.
Naylor lives with her husband, Rex, in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the mother of
two sons, both grown and married, and has several grandchildren.
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Copyright © 2004 by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The poem on page 260, “Passing
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Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Including Alice / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life
when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment.
ISBN 0-689-82637-0
[1. Remarriage—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Self-confidence
—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction.
5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7 .N24In 2004
[Fic]—dc22 2003018210
