The Grooming of Alice

166 Pages·2016·1.09 MB·English

by  Naylor Phyllis Reynolds

I looked first at Pamela and then at Elizabeth. No ice cream, no chips, and
jogging three miles with ankle weights? This was a summer?
THE SUMMER BEFORE NINTH GRADE IS ALL about getting it right—from
head to toe. Alice and her friends want to start high school feeling like they
always imagined a true high schooler feels: confident, capable, pretty. But a little
too much time standing in front of a mirror in their bathing suits makes Alice,
Pamela, and Elizabeth feel just about as far away from “high-school ready” as
possible. They have two and a half months to become the girls they think they
should be … but when Elizabeth takes the weight-loss plan too seriously, Alice
starts to worry that growing up (and slimming down) isn’t all it’s cracked up to
be.
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PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR includes many of her own life experiences in
the Alice books. She writes for both children and adults, and is the author of
more than one hundred and thirty-five books, including the Alice series, which
Entertainment Weekly has called “tender” and “wonderful.” In 1992 her novel
Shiloh won the Newbery Medal. She lives with her husband, Rex, in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, and is the mother of two grown sons and the
grandmother of Sophia, Tressa, Garrett, and Beckett.
The Grooming of Alice
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Shiloh Season
Saving Shiloh The Alice Books
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Alice in Blunderland
Lovingly Alice
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
Patiently Alice
Including Alice
Alice on Her Way
Alice in the Know
Dangerously Alice
Almost Alice
Intensely Alice
Alice in Charge
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It’s Not Like I Planned It This Way
Please Don’t Be True
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Bernie Magruder and the Pirate’s Treasure
Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril
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The Witch Herself
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Witch Weed
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Ducks Disappearing
I Can’t Take You Anywhere
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How Lazy Can You Get?
All Because I’m Older
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One of the Third-Grade Thonkers
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