Product Details
Aladdin, December 2007
Trade Paperback, 144 pages
ISBN-10: 141695533X
ISBN-13: 9781416955337
Ages: 9 - 12
Grades: 4 - 7
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Notable Children's Books
Description
There's a lot about growing up that's confusing to Alice McKinley. Her mother died when she was four - how can her father and her nineteen-year-old brother, Lester, teach her what she needs to know? Even buying a pair of jeans can turn into a major embarrassment with Lester in charge.
If only she had a role model, like the beautiful sixth-grade teacher Miss Cole. But instead Alice gets assigned to plain, pear-shaped Mrs. Plotkin's class. Is Alice doomed to a life of one embarrassment after another?
"A wonderfully funny and touching story."- Booklist, starred review
"Both hilarious and poignant...The lively style [captures] the essence of an endearing heroine."- School Library Journal, starred review
"Breezy dialouge and a solid story line...readable, funny, and appealing."- Boston Globe
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