Alice-Miranda On Vacation (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Alice-MirandaAlice-Miranda is home for the holidays and there appears to be a lot more happening than what she expected. She faces a lot of mystery and adventure during the holidays. Alice-Miranda and her friend Jacinta are working together to try and solve the problems they are looking at. First, there is the strange boy who throws stones and acts horrible towards them. Then, there’s the handsome film star who has come to stay and, with all the sneaking around at night-time, the girls are certain he is hiding something. And also there is a mysterious black car that keeps appearing, and the extra-strange behaviour of Granny Bert. Everything has gone out of control!Alice-Miranda gets a strange feeling about it all and cannot resist becoming involved and trying to solve everyone’s problems. In the first series of Alice-Miranda books, all of her feelings appear to be true and these ones are no different. This book is excellent at conveying a message about friendship. Alice-Miranda is that friend that every child wants in school, a friend who loves to solve mysteries. Alice-Miranda on Vacation is a delightful book for young girls. It has tea parties, secret clubhouses, horses, and the Queen even comes to visit. I absolutely love Alice-Miranda and am still trying to decide if she is more like Pollyanna Laura Inglles or Eloise, but I think she is a mix of all of them. She assumes that everyone wants to be friends, and tends to bring out the best in all of the people she meets (minus the occasional criminal who is just plain rude)This is the second book in the Alice-Miranda series, and I will have to go back and read the first one. I was able to follow the story line just fine, but I did feel like there was a lot of adventure I missed out on. In this book, she goes home for break (from boarding school) with her friend Jacinta. Things have changed around her house, there is an angry boy who has come to live on the property, a movie star is dating her aunt, and not to mention a few mysterious conversations she overhears and needs to get to the bottom of. The action is slower than in some books, but you love the people in the story so much that it hardly matters. I think I liked Alice-Miranda so much because she is confident but not snobby at all. She stumbles on a mystery that she is intent on solving, but she also still respects privacy and is actually quite honest and direct with people she has questions for. This seems like a great series for younger girls and I will be reading more of them.
What do You think about Alice-Miranda On Vacation (2012)?
The book is really interesting at the end.
—JanShanFlo
