Alice on Her Way

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Book Overview

Imagine it: a weekend without your parents; a weekend in a hotel with your best friends; a weekend in one of the biggest, loudest, craziest cities in the world. Jealous yet? Well, get ready to turn green with envy because Alice, Pam, Liz, and Gwen are headed to New York City for the weekend! Sure, it's a school trip and there'll be some educational stuff like museums and plays and visiting Ellis Island, but what the girls really can't wait for is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689870906
• ISBN13: 9780689870903
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.6" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

A Book I Will Always Love

Alice on Her Way is such a good book that I have read it 7 times! I think this book is one of the most realistic books I have ever read. Alice is a 16 year old girl trying to figer things out. Her boyfriend is too needy, her friend is having Mom issues, and Alice just can't pass her driving test. But though all this Alice ends up figuring things out. I am 10 years old but I think you shoudn't read this unless your about 13-14. This book was great. READ IT!

BEST ALICE BOOK YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Alice book (out of ALL of them) is definetly THE BEST!! Alice gets a new boyfriend, goes to New York City, and gets her driver's lincense. Many things happen to Elizabeth and Pamela too. I won't give away anymore, as I have probably given away too much. YOU GOTTA READ THIS ALICE BOOK!!!!!!!!!

Alice enters womanhood

If you've been a long-time fan of the Alice series, as I have since childhood, Alice's sophmore year welcomes back an old friend with an adultish twist. Alice's life has changed, but Naylor's well-drawn character pulls us into adulthood with just the right blend of innocence and practicality to make her likeable. I'll be sad when these books are over, but I can't wait to read the next one!

Alice is at it again!

Sophomore year is in full swing as Alice, now almost sixteen, begins facing a new set of challenges, issues and awkward situations. On the family front, her father is now joyfully married to Sylvia and her older brother Lester has moved out of the house. Alice misses him, but things at home have never been better. And when Lester begins dating a girl of another race just as an old flame is tying the knot, you have to wonder what will happen at the wedding . . . Meanwhile Alice herself has begun dating Sam, the shy photographer who's had his eye on her since the 8th grade! His patience has paid off, and Naylor's descriptions of their relationship make it hard to believe that she's a day over sixteen herself. But Patrick is still calling, and Alice herself is torn about her feelings for Sam. She feels so split already between family, extra curriculars, academic work and friends that Sam's demands on her time (not to mention his mother) can be more than a bit trying. And if she wants an example of how awful it can be to have a boyfriend make too many demands on your time, she needs look no further than her drama club friend Faith and Faith's abusive boyfriend Ron. But then again, what if a boy doesn't pay enough attention to you? As Pamela finds out, no matter what you do with (or to) a boy, it won't guaruntee his affection. And Pamela's quest to make up for not getting positive attention from her separated parents by seeking it out in boys is showing Alice the right way to go wrong in relationships. She has to figure out how to maintain a balance between the two extremes, and it's not easy. Meanwhile, the school has planned a trip to New York City, and all Alice and her friends want to do is plan a way of sneaking away from the chaperones (one of whom is Pamela's estranged mother!) and enjoying a night on the town. But Alice is also looking forward to that long, dark bus ride back, sitting next to Sam . . .. That's certainly one way to test her feelings! And somewhere between all of this, Alice has to get her driver's liscence, deal with her horrible braces, AND suffer through a class her father's making her take at church about intimacy and relationships. What's a girl to do? The answer is: grow up. And once again, Naylor has crafted a marvelous story in which Alice does a little bit more of just that, leaving readers hungry for another installment in this girl's life. Naylor doesn't shy away from telling it like it is, using the slang terms and frank talk that young people themselves use. Alice's maturity in dealing with her friends, her relationship and her family is evident and she grows with the kind of grace and polish one might wish for one's own daughter. This series began when I was in the fifth grade, and I've been reading the books ever since. (More than ten years! How time flies . . .) And though I've grown up a bit faster than Alice has, I'll never stop following her life, and I'll always love this fantastic se

from an older alice reader...

i started reading the "alice" books when i was 11. now i'm 21 and i'm still reading them! i know that they're targeted towards younger girls, but now i've grown to love alice and the other characters so much that i can't just stop reading them!