Alice series
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The Alice Series is a book series written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. There are three prequels to this series. The first one, Starting with Alice, describes Alice in third grade. Alice in Blunderland is Alice in fourth grade. The final prequel, Lovingly Alice, follows Alice through the troubles of fifth grade. The first book (after the prequels) is The Agony of Alice.
The Alice series follows the main character, Alice McKinley, as she grows up in Silver Spring, Maryland with her father and older brother. Her mother died when she was five from Leukemia. Alice has a hard time at first growing up in an all-male household, but her father and brother Lester prove to be honest and open about almost everything Alice talks about. Alice has very little memory of her mother and seems to have a striking physical resemblance, especially her strawberry-blond hair. Other than that, she has no other traits from her mother. Other characters include Alice's two best friends, Pamela and Elizabeth, her first serious boyfriend Patrick, her prudish Aunt Sally, who provides a little comic relief to many situations, her brother Lester's many girlfriends, and of course her seventh grade Language Arts teacher, Miss Summers, whom she tries to get her father to marry (and they do later in the series.) The Alice series broaches many topics, including relationships, dating, sex, friendship, God, and understanding. Because of its open and honest portrayal of life, the books have made the American Library Association's (ALA) list of most challenged books for several years, making it number one on the list in 2004 for their sexual content, where other books such as Harry Potter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Catcher in the Rye have also made the list.
The Alice prequels
- Starting with Alice
- Alice in Blunderland
- Lovingly Alice
The Alice series
- 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 May 2006
- Dangerously Alice (Announced by Naylor on her site) To be published May 2007
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