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Get ready to start your own incredible, amazing life...right?
Alice McKinley is standing on the edge of something new--and half afraid she might fall off. Graduation is a big deal--that gauntlet of growing up that requires everyone she's known since forever to make huge decisions that will fling them here and there and far from home. But what if Alice wants to be that little dandelion seed that doesn't scatter? What if she doesn't have the heart to fly off into the horizon on the next big breeze? And what if that starts to make her feel like staying close to home means she's a little less incredible than her friends--and her boyfriend Patrick?
Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is be honest with yourself--and sometimes the most incredible thing you can do is sneak a little fun into all this soul-searching.
Author Notes
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana on January 4, 1933. She received a bachelor's degree from American University in 1963. Her first children's book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, was published in 1965. She has written more than 135 children and young adult books including Witch's Sister, The Witch Returns, The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel, A String of Chances, The Keeper, Walker's Crossing, Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry, Please Do Feed the Bears, and The Agony of Alice, which was the first book in the Alice series. She has received several awards including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Cry and the Newberry Award for Shiloh.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 9 Up-This book picks up where Alice in Charge (S & S, 2010), left off. Alice begins her second trimester of senior year with the realization that she's never competed for anything before. In an effort to make the most of her remaining time, she decides to try out for one of the lead roles in the school musical, but landing it means cutting back on her other activities and meeting new people. Will she be able to stay faithful to her boyfriend, Patrick, while he's at college? And what will happen next year, when Patrick studies abroad in Spain and her friends are all at different schools? Although it's refreshing to read a YA novel in which the female protagonist is smart and funny and has a good relationship with her family, readers new to the series will long for something more exciting from Alice and her one-dimensional friends. Very little happens in this installment; the plot lacks focus and drags along slowly. The resolutions are too neat, and the writing walks a fine line between being sunny and saccharine. Purchase for avid fans of the series.-Rachael Myers-Ricker, Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
"It's okay to feel sad along with happy, loss along with gain, regret along with excitement. It's part of the process." It's the last semester of high school, and as usual, Alice McKinley has a lot going on. It feels like everything in her life is on the verge of change, and all the pressure is threatening to overwhelm her. In this twenty-sixth Alice book, Naylor works toward a major milestone in her beloved character's life -- high school graduation. There are plenty of hurdles to jump before that event, not the least of which is a familiar rite of passage for high school seniors -- the wait for college acceptance letters. In addition, Alice impulsively tries out for (and unbelievably gets) a major role in the spring play, which is thrilling and stressful in equal measure. Alice fans will see her through this installment's tumult of emotions as Alice attempts to sort out who she is and what she wants. Life after high school is a big unknown; luckily, there's a summer (in the next book) to get through before anyone has to face it. kitty Flynn (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The newest entry in a series that sits proudly in second place on the ALA's list of Most Banned/Challenged titles of the 21st century (behind Harry) takes its insecure but sensible 17-year-old narrator through her final semester of high school.Alice navigates past such fixed points as Senior Prom, Prank Day and graduation as well as more personal triumphs and tribulations, from getting one of those flat business envelopes from her first-choice college to finding out that her boyfriend Patrick will be spending the next year in Spain. As ever, Naylor-as-Alice fills the interstices with teachable moments including (but not limited to) the short-lived appearance of a "Restricted Reading" shelf in the school library, watching an older co-worker and her loving husband with their new baby, coping with stress-related insomnia, attending a pregnant classmate's baby shower and wedding and reacting to a friend's admission that she's saving up for a labiaplasty. It's all embedded in a milieu of quotidian detail, familiar characters and memories from previous episodes that add both continuity and a matter-of-fact credibility to the advice and insight.The author leaves Alice and friends posing for graduation pictures and looking forward to pre-college summer jobs aboard a cruise ship that will frame the next few volumes in this richly entertaining, reliable and informative guide to growing up. (Fiction. 13-15)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Alice, 18, is graduating from high school in this twenty-sixth title in the popular Alice series, and as she anticipates the pain and excitement of leaving home, she works through big issues with friends, boyfriends, and family members. As always, Alice makes mistakes as well as some disturbing discoveries: she is savvy about sexual facts, although she is still a virgin, but she is shocked to discover that a classmate is considering having labial reduction surgery. The graduation ceremony forms a satisfying conclusion and ends with the suggestion that more installments are coming.--Rochman, Haze. Copyright 2010 Booklist
