Reviews for All but Alice

The average rating for All but Alice based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-25 00:00:00 Kenneth Dunne All But Alice by Phyllis Reynalds Naylor was a good book about being you. Alice, a seventh grade girl, with many friends, found herself not really fitting in, hence the title, All But Alice. She started to change the things she did, and got her ears pierced, like everyone else. For a while, she was very happy with all of these new changes, to be like the other girls in her school. Then, she really started hating the clubs that she was in because she thought is was super dumb and pretty much, a time waster. The book states"Karen and Jill didn't sleep over, but we met at Pamela's on Friday to decide what we were going to buy on Saturdays, and then we went over to Jill's or Karen's on Sundays try on what we'd bought.B-O-R-I-N-G.".She still wants to be very popular but being in those horrible clubs crushed her. Alice is trying to be popular Alice, and good old Alice at the same time, but she does not know if that will work out. I recommend this book to mainly girls, people who would like to hear a nice story about being yourself, and would like a fun girl book. 100% Recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-12-28 00:00:00 Bradley Tabers Alice is such an endearing character, and Naylor does not disappoint with this installment. The character has moved on to constantly worrying about not having a mother to surviving the seventh grade. She has friends, she has family. What more could she want? The one thing I really enjoy about Alice is how wholesome of a character she truly is. She wants to do what is best for everyone, and her questions are so simple and yet so complex. She sees things from a different perspective than the other characters in the book - from many characters aimed at this age group - and that is refreshing. The one thing I enjoyed the most about this book was character growth. In the last book I felt like the characters had become stagnant, but when you look at the age, I guess twelve is when things truly start to move forward in so many ways. Long live Alice!