Alice-By-Accident

by Lynne Reid Banks

Book Overview

Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a school assignment, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380978652
• ISBN13: 9780380978656
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

alice by accident

alice by accident is a great book.It was a great way to see a girl around my age live sortive like me in this world.the book was so good i couldn't get my hands off it.

wellons

Have you ever felt like your mom did'nt plan you? Try going to your closest library and get the book Alice-By-Accident.She felt the same way. This book is amazing she went step by step telling her story when she was born her father left her mom so when she got older she wonder where was her father.Her mom told her he left and told her she had her on accident she didn't know what that meanso when she went to school on her announment the principal said that a little was hit by a car.The teacher said that was an accident so she thought that was a bad thing.She went home and told her mom about it and she told her the story. I really enjoy this book hope you will!

ALICE

I thought Alice By Acciedent was a great book, you feel like you are side by side with her during her story. I sugggest this book to anybody who likes realistic fiction and enjoys hearing stories in first person and also likes stories that remind themselves of them.

Alice-By-Accident

Alice Elizabeth Williamson-Stone is the nine-and-a-half-year-old voice of her generation. Asked to write an autobiography in her School Notebook, she records much of the turmoil of her young life: being raised by her struggling single mom, never having met her father, and coping with the plit between her mom and Gene, her paternal grandmother . Gene doesn't approve of the fact that Alice's mom and dad never married and now are asked to move out of Gene's house because Alice's father and his new wife need it. alice's loyalties are torn between her mom and grandmom and she struggles to comprehend adult relationships and her place in the world. But the book rings true to the voices of 10 year olds everywhere. Alice is sensitive, quirky British girl and is a likeable believable herioine. Though I liked the book, the writing style is a little overly complex for a children's book...it goes back and forth from Alice's journal entries to a replay of past events which can make it a bit confusing at times. American readers may at first be put off by the british dialogue and the style of writing (deliberately infused with grammatical and spelling errors, or, as Alice puts it, her "an ilustrated ortobiography"), but the book is both lively and insightful as is Alive herself. A great book for all, especially kids who live in single parent households.