bookgirl4ever 's review for:

The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

4.0

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Alice is beginning sixth grade at a new school. The only person she knows there is Elizabeth, the seemingly perfect girl living across the street. Alice decides that living with a father and an older brother (her mother died when she was young) has left her with a gaping hole on how a young woman should be. The first day of school, Alice learns about the sixth grade teachers. She sees young, beautiful, cool Miss Cole and her opposite, frumpy, old Mrs. Plotkin. Alice is determined that Miss Cole will become her feminine mentor but through the school years learns that there is more to what makes a person good and honorable than meets the eye.

Middle school