Alice in Charge
Alice 22
1st Edition
Published on 12. June 2012
304 pages
978-1-4424-6605-0 (ISBN)
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Alice's senior year is off to a rocky start in this relatable novel from Newbery Medalist and three-time Edgar Award?winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
It's the beginning of Alice's senior year and she finds herself facing some difficult situations. A sudden increase in vandalism at the school leads Alice to discover an angry and violent group of students?teenage neo-Nazis. And if that wasn't bad enough, she learns that a new, attentive teacher has been taking advantage of her friend. Between these crises, harder classes, college applications, work, and friends, Alice wonders just how much responsibility she can take. It's great to start feeling like a grown-up, but does the world really have to throw her everything all at once? Alice has the choice to step up...or melt down.
The decision is simple and true to the character that readers have loved for years: Alice steps up?and in a big way.
It's the beginning of Alice's senior year and she finds herself facing some difficult situations. A sudden increase in vandalism at the school leads Alice to discover an angry and violent group of students?teenage neo-Nazis. And if that wasn't bad enough, she learns that a new, attentive teacher has been taking advantage of her friend. Between these crises, harder classes, college applications, work, and friends, Alice wonders just how much responsibility she can take. It's great to start feeling like a grown-up, but does the world really have to throw her everything all at once? Alice has the choice to step up...or melt down.
The decision is simple and true to the character that readers have loved for years: Alice steps up?and in a big way.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 135 books, including the Newbery Award-winning Shiloh and its sequels, three of which were made into movies; the Alice series; Roxie and the Hooligans; and Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland. To hear from Phyllis and find out more about Alice, visit AliceMcKinley.com.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Chapter One: Starting Over
- Chapter Two: Marshaling The Troops
- Chapter Three: Student Jury
- Chapter Four: An Unexpected Invitation
- Chapter Five: The Meaning Of Eight
- Chapter Six: Road To Chapel Hill
- Chapter Seven: Call Girl
- Chapter Eight: Night In Chapel Hill
- Chapter Nine: Decisions
- Chapter Ten: The Face Of America
- Chapter Eleven: Letting Off Steam
- Chapter Twelve: Incident Number Three
- Chapter Thirteen: Call To Aunt Sally
- Chapter Fourteen: Relationships
- Chapter Fifteen: Dinner Guests
- Chapter Sixteen: Amy
- Chapter Seventeen: Alice In Charge
- Chapter Eighteen: Change
- Chapter Nineteen: Conference
- Chapter Twenty: Confrontation
- Chapter Twenty-One: Wrap-Up
- Chapter Twenty-Two: To Life
- Incredibly Alice excerpt
