Including Alice

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Book Overview

After four years of hoping, wishing, scheming, and waiting, the moment Alice has been yearning for has at long last arrived... Alice's dad is finally marrying Sylvia Summers! Alice always knew they were perfect for each other when she set them up back in seventh grade, but she's relieved that The Big Day is here. She's never felt so excited, so vindicated, so grown-up, and so ... well, so left out. Now that the wedding is really happening, no one...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689870744
• ISBN13: 9780689870743
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10

Customer Reviews

Including Alice

In Inculding Alice, Alice dosen't want her dad to get married because of her mother.Then Alice dosen't want to get to know her.Alice gets used to the way that she dose things.

Drama of Teenage Years

This Book is about a girl named Alice who has worked for years to get her dad together with her teacher Sylvia. In the mean time her best friend broke her and her boyfriend Patrick up. The wedding day comes up and they are fighting to get everything put together. She is confused on how to be the Maid of Honor. She was walking down the aisle and she drops her purse. She started to panic so Patrick picked it up for her. Then days after Alice finally give them her gift, but the thing is Sylvia got a new bed and the sheet Alice made does fit. Well that is a brief Summary of the book I like the part in the book where Alice and her friends decide to cook a dinner for her older brother Lester. Then as they were going to knock on the door they heard laughing. Lester was having a party so they just left. Another part I liked was the Wedding Day were Alice drop her purse going down the aisle and Sylvia almost tripped on it until Patrick picked it up. I didn't like the part where Alice yelled at her new step mom because she bought a new bed and did not tell her. She just made a beautiful new bed sheets for the old bed. My other dislike about the book is where the sister couldn't be in the Wedding because she was sick. I think that they should have not made her sick in the book because it is important moment for her sister. I would recommend this book to girls that love to read love stories.

Pleasing Prediction

Before I got the book, I already knew that this book wouldbe as excellent as the other alice series. I have been reading alice series since 7th grade, and boy I loved it. I already know that alice's adventures would be getting better and better since Ms. Naylor always write something to please the audience and my advice to you is to buy the book now because the book is worth every penny when you read it. (Caution: Once you started reading the book you can't stop!) -hehe... Naylorfan 4ever- elliePatrick+Alice they rock! (well.. most of the series)

Keeps getting better.

I've been reading the Alice series since 4th grade. Now, going into my third year of college, I'm as big a fan as I ever was. I've grown up with these books. Alice is such a great character. She - along her friends, family, and experiences - is so believable, so real, that I feel like she really exists somewhere (perhaps inside Naylor, I suspect).Including Alice continues the story of Alice McKinley. Now she is preparing for the wedding of her father to Sylvia Summers. The book follows her through the wedding, and the adjustments she has to make afterwards - like living in a female-dominated household after so many years of living with her dad and Lester. The other storylines in the book piece it together and make for added entertainment and laughs. But I don't want to give anything away, so I'll leave it at that.In my eyes, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is one of the best writers of young adult fiction, and I will continue to read the Alice series until their end. At that point I will just pass them on to the next generation of young girls in my family, and then the next... and the next...You get the picture.Now just read the books already. :)

Another great addition to the series!

I've been a dedicated fan of the Alice series for over four years now, and I'm finally older than Alice - but I know I'll always love reading about her. Including Alice is a great addition to the series, and probably the most-eagerly-awaited of them all, because guess what? Alice's dad is getting married!The "wedding chapters" were so much fun to read, especially while listening to the free CD of classical wedding music that's included with the book. Obviously, there are a lot of changes for 15-year-old Alice, including getting used to having a stepmom, Lester living in an apartment of his own, and new developments in her relationships with friends. I really enjoyed this book, because it included many familiar characters, realistic and humorous situations, and was very easy to relate to. Alice is definitely growing up, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the best at making this series work!