Outrageously Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

124 Pages·2019·1.04 MB·English

by  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Well, I was getting one thing straight, I decided as I walked to the
cafeteria. I was getting across the fact that I wasn’t sweet little Alice
McKinley anymore—a generic type of girl with no imagination or style.

NOW THAT SHE IS SETTLING INTO EIGHTH grade, the class she used to
envy, Alice McKinley is discovering that it isn’t all that exciting. But maybe
it’s up to her to make this year as thrilling as she thought it would be. Out
with the old, plain-Jane Alice, in with the new, stylish, creative Alice. She’s
sick of being boring. It’s time to be outrageous!
But what if outrageous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? What if Alice finds
herself in situations that are more embarrassing than they are wild and fun? Is
Alice destined to be the same boring girl forever?
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PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR includes many of her own life experiences
in the Alice books. She writes for both children and adults, and is the author
of more than one hundred and thirty-five books, including the Alice series,
which Entertainment Weekly has called “tender” and “wonderful.” In 1992
her novel Shiloh won the Newbery Medal. She lives with her husband, Rex,
in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and is the mother of two grown sons and the
grandmother of Sophia, Tressa, Garrett, and Beckett.
Outrageously Alice
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