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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Lovingly Alice.

Publisher Horn Book, Inc.
Publication The Horn Book Magazine
Subject Literature/writing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0018-5078
Issues per Year 6
Volume 80
Issue 6
Published 2004-11-01

Role Type Name
Author n/a Kitty Flynn
Reviewee n/a Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Lovingly Alice 166 pp. Atheneum 9/04 ISBN 0-689-84399-2 $15.95 (Intermediate)

Fifth grade is a difficult year for Alice McKinley. In this third and final prequel to Naylor's nineteen-book series, Alice worries about a friend who moved away without telling anyone; grieves for her beloved cat, who dies suddenly (though not entirely unexpectedly); and generally feels sorry for herself ("When I got enough money ... I was going to get a T-shirt that read, DON'T MESS WITH ME on the front"). As in the previous books, information about growing up,...

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