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Alice on the Outside.

Publisher Horn Book, Inc.
Publication The Horn Book Magazine
Subject Literature/writing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0018-5078
Issues per Year 6
Volume 75
Issue 4
Published 1999-07-01

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

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Alice on the Outside 169 pp. Karl/Atheneum 6/99 ISBN 0-689-80359-1 15.00 (Young Adult)

In this eleventh installment in the series, Alice and her friends have a lot to think about during the second half of eighth grade. From her divorced cousin Carol's answer to the daring question Alice has been dying to ask. ("What does intercourse really, really feel like for a woman?"), Alice learns that, unlike what she's seen in the movies, sex is "a lot more complicated than [she] had thought." Consciousness Raising Week, a schoolwide experiment, sheds light on...

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