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...
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...
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...