Simply Alice

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Book Overview

When they first broke up, Alice couldn't imagine life without Patrick in it. But once she joins the school play and becomes more involved in the news-paper, she's busier than she's ever been before -- too busy to pine for Patrick and too busy, or so Pamela and Eliza-beth think, for them. As Alice spends more time with activities that don't include Pamela and Elizabeth, they grow increasingly resentful. And Alice grows increasingly confused by their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689826354
• ISBN13: 9780689826351
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Simply great

I loved the book Simply Alice because Alice is the most real heroine any girl could have. On the back of the hardcover book one reader says she cries sometimes thinking Alice isn't real. I do too!This book is only 4 young adults though!

Wonderful Alice Again!

A terrific Alice book! All of Naylor's books are awesome. In simply Alice, it seems like you are part of the story. It's every teen girl's biography! Keep up the good work Phyllis!

Simply Alice

In Simply Alice, Alice just broke-up with her boyfriend and started joining activities to get her mind off things.She gets so involved she doesn't spend much time with her closest pals and suddenly they start to grow apart.Her brother Lester, is having some problems too. He finally finds the love of his and then she dumps him. Trying to get her back gets him in serious trouble and Alice and her friends have to recue him. Her father is the only one who's life is steady and peaceful.I recommend this book for kids 12-17. I'm thirteen and I've read all the Alice books. The books are so real you think you bump into her someday.

Another wonderful book in the series

Being a true, devoted Alice fan, I was both surprised and happy when this book showed up on my door step. I hadn't read an "Alice" book in what seemed like years, but Phyllis Reynolds Naylor swings right back into action like you never even left for a moment.This semester, Alice is faced with many new situations. Being a "single" for the first time in a long time, Alice finds she doesn't have time for half the things she used to. With Patrick out of the way and Pam and Liz doing their own things, Alice is left feeling confused. With her newspaper job and her interest in stage crew, the audience is taken on wonderful journey that leds Alice to a whole new side of life.Lester has found new love, Alice a new admirer, her Dad a new hobby and we have front row seats.Overall, this book was just as good, if not better, than all the other Alice books and I am already counting the days until the next one is released. I recomended this to anyone (and it probablly helps if you have read the other books first!)

A marvelous story!

As Alice tries to get over her break up with Patrick and try to help Elizabeth get through being molested when she was at a young age, Alice finds herself losing her "Alice Time" by doing things for other people. Alice especially loses this when she gets a snotty greeting from her old enemy Charlene and gets mysterious love letters leading her to places and finally making her oblivious. Will Alice ever get time to do what she likes for once? Simply Alice truly follows by it's title and will leave you turning each page with some suspense and a lot of smiles.