What do You think about Alice In April (2002)?
I read these books years ago. I'm 25 and retreading them. Even though they are geared to young girls, anyone can relate to them. Phyllis really hits the nail on the head showing what life is really like for a 7th grader. My now deceased aunt took me to the library in 6th grade where I found " agony of Alice" . And I've been hooked since. The library gave away books this past summer and that book just happend to be one of them. Needless to say I will never rid of. I definitely recommend this book series to girls and women alike.
—Brittany Ross
Alice In April is a book about a young girl named Alice, her brother Lester, and her dad. Since Alice's aunt Sally told her she is the "Woman of the House", Alice has done everything she thought her mother, who died, would have done. She tries to handle her family by herself but then realizes she doesn't have to do all the work by herself because they were a family. I liked the book because it is very interesting, easy to understand, and it goes along with the young age. It tells the struggles that adolescents and teenagers have today in their life.
—Lucrecia Ramos
I read a few Alice books when I was younger and loved them, and I enjoyed this one just as much as an adult. The series has been widely banned for its frank discussions of sex and puberty. While I don't think the books are appropriate for young kids, they seem pretty tame to me compared to a lot of the children's and young adult lit out there now ("Alice in April" was published in 1993). I LOVE the characters in the Alice books. I totally relate to Alice and her confusion about boys, her family, her body, school, and everything else. I adore her family, especially her goofy twenty-year-old brother who teases her sometimes but is ultimately kind-hearted and sweet. This book has a good combination of light-hearted humor and tough real-world stuff, though I do think that the tragedy at the end of the book is glossed over a little too much. The middle school drama cracked me up and made me remember my own adolescence, but there's plenty of heavier subject matter, too, to give the story depth.
—Heather
