The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Alice moves on, ready to be a wise teenager. Out of all this, to her amazement, comes a role model - one that she would never have accepted before she made a few very important discoveries on her own, things no roadmap could have shown her. And she meets an aunt and a female cousin whom she has not really known before. She also comes to know the lovely Miss Cole, as well as Mrs. While she was born in Anderson, Indiana, thats not the place she considered home. Through the school year, Alice has lots to record. For Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, this is very true She was born on Januduring the Great Depression. Publication Order of Alice McKinley Books. Alice calls hers 'The Agony of Alice,' and in it she records all the embarrassing things that happen to her. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases. Plotkin's first assignments is for each member of the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. Unfortunately, she draws the homely, pear-shaped Mrs. If only she finds herself, when school begins, in the classroom of the beautiful sixth-grade teacher, Miss Cole, her troubles will be over. What she needs, Alice decides, is a gorgeous woman who does everything right, as a roadmap, so to speak. Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right and when placed in homely Mrs.

Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts. What do they know about being a teen age girl? Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right and when placed in homely Mrs. Help and advice can only come from her father, manager of a music store, and her nineteen-year-old brother, who is a slob. It's worse for her than for anyone else, she believes, because she has no role model. Here she is, about to be a teenager and she doesn't know how. Life, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment.

The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor