Alice in April

By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Book Overview

Alice is turning 13, and her Aunt Sally tells her she should prepare to take charge of the McKinley household. But Alice's attempts at being the in-control homemaker have predictably disastrous--and hilarious--results. An ALA Notable Children's Book and School Library Journal Best Book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689816863
• ISBN13: 9780689816864
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A funny book about a troubled girl

Alice in April is about a girl who is having trouble with boys giving the girls at school nicknames of a state by it's geography, in other words ,"hills or no hills". If you like books that are funny, maybe even true life, Alice in April is the book for you.

I think I've run out of words to describe Alice books!!

Superb! Wonderful! Gorgeous! Extroidonary! Lovely! All right, guess not! This book provides an even FURTHER look into Alice's life and the characters--oh, the characters!--just pop even more. I feel like I'm standing right next to them! I found the topic of the pelvic exam for Elizabeth wonderful! Not many young adult fiction writers will even touch on those subjects that girls really need to know about. More sex talk and descriptions of a pelvic exam, so beware for tender minds who can not handle that information. These books seem to keep you blushing harder with every installment and that's really what we need in today's young adult fiction! Bravo, Phylis! Blessed be!!

Wonderful!

In this book Alice is becoming a teenager and is now "woman of the house" and goes a little too far with the idea. Read all the other Alice books too, they're great!

The best kids' book I've ever read

I'm only 12, but this is the best book of the hundreds I've read. Alice McKinley's aunt reminds her that she's almost 13 and will be Woman of the House soon. (Her mother died when she was four.) Alice gets a head start on her womanhood by cleaning the entire house, having her father and brother get physical checkups, and throwing a birthday bash for her father's fiftieth birthday. Besides that, she must survive the latest crisis at school: the boys are matching the girls' chest sizes with a state according to its mountains' heights! Perspective yet hilarious! My favorite book ever until the next Alice book comes out