Patiently Alice

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Book Overview

Now that she's finished her freshman year of high school and survived her first breakup, Alice is pretty sure she's finally got a handle on life. But when she heads off to be a camp counselor for three weeks, Alice is shocked to come home to find that everything has changed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689826362
• ISBN13: 9780689826368
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Book

This book was really good. It's about When Alice and her friends take jobs as assistant counselors at a camp for messed up kids. Camp Overlook is one of the best things that happened to Alice. She makes wonderful friends, makes a diffence in some kids lives, and at the same time manages to stay just friends with all the hot boy assistant counselors. Elizabeth is getting sizzly with hottie Ross, Gwen is getting down and dirty with Joe. Overall, Camp Overlook counselors are learning about love and friendship.

Great Book

I have been a faithful reader in the "Alice" series and when I read this book, I was definitly not disappointed. I have read every single Alice book and I still find it interesting. This book was escpecially good to me because it involved tons of new guys for the girls to fight over and have fun with. I also liked that the girls were in a different environment than what they usually were in, that being a coed camp. This book was touching and fun. I even laughed out loud, which I hardly ever do in books.

Another great addition to the series!

I've been a fan of the Alice series for over three years, now, and every year I anxiously await the next release. I was not disappointed with Patiently Alice this spring - far from it! Covering the summer between 15-year-old Alice McKinley's 9th and 10th grade years, this should be popular with fans and newcomers to the series alike. Alice's mother died when she was very young, so she's excited that her dad is finally marrying her English teacher from 7th grade. Alice and three of her friends, Elizabeth, Pamela, and Gwen, decide to be assistant counselers at a summer camp for three weeks, however, soon before the wedding. Alice and her friends have a lot of fun, trials, and tribulations at camp, but when Alice returns home, so many things have changed. The wedding is postponed, her 22-year-old brother Lester is considering moving, a friend is having family problems, and she even hears from her ex-boyfriend, Patrick. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes very realistic, humorous reads about life for a teenage girl who is not-so-perfect but somehow relates to all of us. Be sure to read the othes in the series, and if you still want more, try The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot or the Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging series by Louise Rennison. Enjoy!

So good

This has got to be the best book I ever read (and I have read a lot) Ben and sylvia's marrige is postponed Elizabeth the saint toys with the decision whether or not to have sex, and the girls in her cabin at the end are still far from being one big happy family as Alice hope's. when she comes home Patrick of all people calls on Alice for help! Luckily some things do go right. Alice gets some sights indeed from the male counselers at camp. I would like to write all but their is just so much more.

One of the best books I ever read

Alice goes off to camp whereshe imagines all the girls in her cabin to "feel like a happy family." WRONG ALICE Some of the girls are scared of water, Eliabeth fights the decision to have sex and much, much more.