A nice realistic fiction that surprised me. Ivy June and Katherine come from very different worlds, although the same state. The exchange program between the schools was an interesting idea, and it's good for kids to understand that in this day of cell phones and computers and such, there are s...
In my opinion it was a really good book, though it was a bit "cheesy" at times, I felt like it showed some struggles that could happen in our life's and through out high school and as a teenager. At some points I felt it was a bit dramatic with the romance with all the break ups and make ups but ...
t's the summer before college, and Alice and her friends are working together on a cruise ship. It sounds like a fun job, but once on board, the girls realize they'll have to work nonstop. When things start going wrong on the ship, they have to roll with the punches, far from land. This felt like...
Very meh. I have a sentimental attachment to Alice since I read her when I was a kid, but in these newer books, Naylor is trying too hard to be PC and "hip"...unfortunately, it comes off as insincere and clueless. It's pretty clear she is pretty roved from kids these days, and there's NO CHANCE m...
After reading the second book in the new series by Newbery Award winner Phylis Reynolds Naylor, I went back and grabbed the first book Emily's Fortune. This is a great transitional series for intermediate and younger readers. With short chapters and clever cliff hanger questions at the end, it ke...
I have absolutely adored Alice McKinley and loved reading about her ups and downs ever since I discovered her in the library when we were both in 6th grade. Naylor is nearing the end of her series and I have been meaning for a while now to check back in with Alice and see where junior and senior...
Shiloh is a simple story about a boy who falls in love with an abused dog, and a dog who returns his affection. Anybody who has ever gotten a puppy as a child will be able to relate to the adoration Marty shows the dog he names Shiloh. While this is a story for young children, its themes and ethi...
The first book in the hilarious trilogy featuring the feuding Hatford and Malloy families. When a new family--with three daughters--moves into the neighborhood, the Hatford brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio.
As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia.
I found this book by looking around my house for books to read. One thing that impressed me was that the 1st book I didn't read it but read the second and it was very interesting for a short story because it had a great plot and makes you want to read more of the book and on the outgoing series. ...
This fourth book about the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters begins shortly before Christmas, three months after the Malloys move to Buckman, WV. As the holiday season approaches, the boys and girls continue to play pranks on one another and begin to learn the consequences of their actions....
The Hatford boys' New Year's resolution is "the girls can stay . . . but only if they play by our rules." Their mother insists that they "treat those girls as though they were your sisters." Okay, but somehow the boys' interpretation owes more to sibling rivalry than to brotherly love. The one we...
It’s spring break and the only assignment Wally Hatford and Caroline Malloy have is to do something that they have never done before. Wally’s sure that will be a cinch once he hears the great news about the mighty Benson brothers coming to stay for vacation. It will be nonstop action all the way....
The race is on! The Hatford boys and the Malloy girls are ready to outdo one another again. Eddie is the first girl to ever try out for the school baseball team. Now she and Jake are competing for the same position, while Caroline and Wally compete for class spelling bee champ. Wally is itching t...
Play ball! That’s what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale for the Women’s Auxiliary of the Buckman Fire Depa...
I really loved how they created the newspaper!
Freedom! It's the moment Alice has been looking forward to for years -- her sixteenth birthday is coming up, and that means getting her driver's licence, with the freedom that entails. And before that important milestone, there's another delicious taste of freedom awaiting Alice and her friends -...
I'm calling it: this is where the Alice series goes downhill.Some detractors hate on the high school books because of the increase in sexual content, but I'll defend the series to the ends of the earth from them; I think the frankness with which it approaches sexual topics which are undeniably pa...
Who will win as the curtain closes on the war between the girls and the boys? Summer vacation is almost over and after one year in Buckman it looks like the Malloy girls will be going home to Ohio. The Hatford boys are relieved to finally be rid of Eddie, Beth and Caroline, also known as the Womp...
Alice has always tried to be a decent person. She gets good grades, comes home on time, and has never really given her dad and her stepmom any reason to worry. But now that junior year of high school has started, Alice is a little sick of people assuming she's a goody-goody, so she decides to sta...
I think I’m officially over the Alice series. It’s just not as interesting as I thought it would be. The language has become rather easy and the chapters are so short and transparent. The title to each chapter gives so much away and isn’t the least bit original, like "Total Humiliation". Lame. Ea...
I picked this up on a whim from the teen fiction display at the library, for two reasons: one, it's by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, whose Boy/Girl War books kept my children happily entertained in elementary school. Reliable author. Two, it's about an 8th grade girl who is dealing with 8th grade life...
If you're reading the Alice books more or less in order but skipping around a little, like I did, don't skip this one. It's not filler like some of them are. This one has a good amount of forward motion on the serieswide arcs, and touches on a lot of serieswide themes (though anviliciously).Alice...
The third book in the Alice series, covering the first semester of seventh grade.Alice decides she wants to be liked by everyone in seventh grade, but runs into trouble when she meets Denise Whitlock, who mercilessly picks on Alice. So the lesson in this one is how to deal with a bully. Alice dea...
Is Three a Crowd in the McKinley Household?The day that Alice has been hoping, wishing, and waiting for has finally arrived: Her father and Sylvia Summers are getting married! But Alice soon discovers that having the stepmother of her dreams doesn't necessarily make her life perfect. Suddenly the...
Oh Alice, the insecurities of being a new teen seem to not phase her in the same way it does her friends. The main reason is because of her innocent nature. I've read reviews that claimed she was unrealistic, but I can promise you that I teach high school juniors that display the same level of in...
Alice oh Alice... tipikal ABG jaman sekarang. Tepatnya, ABG yang beranjak ke masa remaja. Seorang gadis yang harus memecahkan sendiri segala misteri tentang kewanitaan gegara sang ibu telah meninggal dunia dan ia hanya tinggal dengan ayah dan kakak lelakinya yang terkadang tak mau membantunya. Ad...
Slight improvement over the previous installment. Nonetheless, I hold the same misgivings in regards to the sexual content. Moreover, the characters remain flat, no longer leaping from the page as in earlier editions. My hunch is this is due to Naylor writing based on what she has read and observ...
SUMMER IS AROUND the corner, and the rivalry between the Malloys and the Hatfords is heating up! The kids have two weeks to earn money for a fundraising contest sponsored by the local hospital. Those who collect $20 or more for the new children’s wing can choose to be in the annual Strawberry Fes...
Ngga ada satu orangpun yang pernah bilang sama gue, kalo jadi remaja itu SUSAH.Lebih susah dari sekedar naik metromini ke melawai, terus ngerjain soal-soal spmb yang hasilnya cuma bisa menjawab 4 pertanyaan buat mata pelajaran matematika yang jumlah soalnya ada.. 25. And double that.Lebih susah d...
I knew I shouldn't have, but I picked this up at my local library on Saturday afternoon and started reading it shortly after. I had been wanting to read it for quite awhile even though it is a little bit older (2003). I think it would make a great summer read and it made me want summer vacation t...
Charles WoodINFO 683 w/ Professor MorrisResource Review #4May 31, 2009Reynolds Naylor, Phyllis. All but Alice, New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1949. 88 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 0-448-09526-2. Recommended for ages 10-14.This installment of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s realistic fiction series “Alice”, f...
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Alice Alone. Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, New York, 2001.240 pages. $7.99 ISBN 978-1-4391-3229-6 (eBook).Grades 7-9; Ages 12-14.Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s beloved Alice is back and ready to begin high school. With her boyfriend ...
Valentine’s Day is coming up and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are spotted holding hands, Josh tells his teasing brothers that he’s simply spying on the girls to see what they’re plotting next. When Caroline Malloy decides she must know what it’s like to fall ...
There are good years and bad years for kids . . . . . . and fifth grade is turning out to be a bad one for Alice. Her teacher, Mrs. Swick, never smiles. A good friend moves away. Her plan to find a stepmother is a total failure. And then something happens that's so terrible it makes Alice mad at...
SUMMARY: DOES EVERYONE DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE?Marty's parents think so -- even Judd Travers, whose history of drinking and violence keeps Marty from completely trusting that his beloved dog, Shiloh, will always be safe from Judd."Some people just seem to attract trouble," Marty's Ma says, and J...
I'm a sucker for anything with dogs in it, Old Yeller, White Fang, Where the Red Fern Grows, the original Shiloh, and this sequel's no exception. Got this as a hardcover when it first came out and absolutely loved it. What ten year old kid wouldn't want to read about a kid his age and the dog he ...
Recently I read the book "Achingly Alice" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, which is a story about Alice, the main character, and the events that take place as she tries to get her teacher to marry her father who're in love. The cover is what caught my eye as I thought it'd be a sweet romance consideri...
One of my daughters closely paralleled the age of our heroine Alice McKinley who ages throughout the publication of the 28 (!) books in the series written by Naylor, and I consider myself so grateful that Hayley had a literary friend that always so similarly and magically matched her own maturity...
Alice represents an honest portrayal of growing up for a young girl, although in her case she is trying to do it without a mother.In the latest installment, Alice realizes that soon she will be thirteen, and according to her Aunt Sally this will make her the woman of the house. Alice takes this t...
Alice McKinley is back in action and ready to begin fourth grade in the second installment of the series. Unfortunately for her, it seems like fourth grade might be even tougher for her than third—she just can’t seem to stop making blunders!Every other day it seems like Alice is knee-deep in humi...
He was grinning when I opened the door. “Got any chickens you need rounding up, ma’am?” he asked. “Scott, were you the one who let those loose at school?” I said, laughing. “No, but I know who did. The Edge never reveals its sources, though.” I realized it would be impolite not to invite him in, ...
in the hallway, since the day I’d overheard her talking with our vice-principal. She’d smile her warm smile, of course, and usually add a little something, like, “That’s a great sweater,” or “You must be keeping busy; I hardly see you anymore,” but it never lasted longer t...
Shelley was especially good at smiling, and because her red hair was on the wild side, she got lots of smiles in return. We watched from the kitchen doorway as Mrs. Gladys pointed out some of the “regulars”: Miss Ruth, who wore gloves when she ate to protect herself from germs; Gordon, who was re...
Takes a ton of money to be a vet, I know—once you get through college, there’s even more college. But if that can’t happen, I’d like to be a veterinarian’s assistant. This takes training too, but I can learn a lot just being a volunteer sometimes on Saturday mornings. Dad drives me there on his w...
Sylvia said that I slept until two thirty the following afternoon. That wasn’t entirely true, because I woke around noon and debated getting up—then thought better of it and went back to sleep again. When I finally stumbled into the bathroom, I felt as though I had molted ...
He couldn’t keep away any longer. He told himself that all he wanted to do was make sure he could still find it. Mel was sound asleep on the sofa, glad for some time off before his next run, and Katie had gotten off the bus a few stops earlier with one of her friends. Buck could get to the old Wi...
Some of the decorations she had brought along after she married Dad were two little log cabins, the kind the Pilgrims might have built, that were also candleholders. We put them at each end of the table, with a low bouquet of carnations in fall colors in between. I’d baked two pies the night befo...