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READ WHAT REAL GIRLS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT alice!* *“Alice and her friends seem sooooo real!!! They go through all the problems life throws you!! I’m not saying that I like seeing people go through problems, it’s just that it’s great to see you can get over these problems and have a great life too.” —dragnfly *“I feel like Alice is my next door neighbor and Elizabeth lives across the street from me. Pamela is in most of my classes at school and Patrick is my childhood best friend. Sometimes I wish soooooo badly Alice and everyone in these book were real.” —Leslie *“I love your alice books, simply because they portray life so much. Alice is your average girl who gets embarrassed on a weekly basis, good and bad things happen, is self conscious and just lives day to day.” —a loyal reader *“My friends … and I LOVE your Alice books! They are so awesome! We’ve read almost all of them and are trying to get our hands on the rest. We love the Alice books sooooo much we call ourselves Pam, Liz, and Al.” —Lauren * TAKEN FROM ACTUAL POSTINGS ON THE ALICE WEB SITE. TO READ MORE, VISIT ALICE AT WWW.SIMONANDSCHUSTER.COM/ALICE. After four years of hoping, wishing, scheming, and waiting, the moment Alice has been yearning for has at long last arrived… . Alice’s dad is finally marrying Sylvia Summers! Alice always knew they were perfect for each other when she set them up back in seventh grade, but she’s relieved that The Big Day is here. She’s never felt so excited, so vindicated, so grown-up, and so … well, so left out. Now that the wedding is really happening, no one has time for Alice anymore, and the situation just gets worse when Sylvia moves into their house. Nothing is the way Alice thought it would be. Her dad and Sylvia have their new life together; Lester has his new apartment; and Alice feels like she’s on her own for the first time in her life. She’s also starting to notice that even though Dad and Sylvia are perfectly happy together, not everyone gets along so well. Elizabeth and Ross never see each other; Leslie and Lori are breaking up; Pamela and her mother can’t seem to find a way to even talk to each other; and Alice herself has started to hear some surprising rumors about Patrick … As Alice watches her friends sort out their problems and sees her dad and Sylvia navigate their new marriage, she starts to understand all the hard work that goes into relationships and how even when people seem to be meant for each other, it’s not always easy to be together. PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR writes for both children and adults, and is the author of more than one hundred books, including Starting with Alice; Alice in Blunderland; The Agony of Alice; Alice in Rapture, Sort of; Reluctantly Alice; All but Alice; Alice in April; Alice In-Between; Alice the Brave; Alice in Lace; Outrageously Alice; Achingly Alice; Alice on the Outside; The Grooming of Alice; Alice Alone; Simply Alice; and Patiently Alice. In 1992 her novel Shiloh won the Newbery Medal. Mrs. Naylor lives with her husband, Rex, in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the mother of two sons, both grown and married, and has several grandchildren. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH COPYRIGHT © 2004 BY NICK VACCARO JACKET DESIGN BY RUSSELL GORDON Visit us on the World Wide Web Kids.SimonandSchuster.com ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS Simon & Schuster New York Including Alice Books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Witch’s Sister Witch Water The Witch Herself Walking Through the Dark How I Came to Be a Writer How Lazy Can You Get? Eddie, Incorporated All Because I’m Older Shadows on the Wall Faces in the Water Footprints at the Window The Boy with the Helium Head A String of Chances The Solomon System Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink Night Cry Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear The Dark of the Tunnel The Agony of Alice The Keeper Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing Bodies The Year of the Gopher Beetles, Lightly Toasted Maudie in the Middle One of the Third Grade Thonkers Alice in Rapture, Sort Of Keeping a Christmas Secret Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel Send No Blessings Reluctantly Alice King of the Playground Shiloh All but Alice Josie’s Troubles The Grand Escape Alice in April Bernie Magruder and the Drive-thru Funeral Parlor Alice In-Between The Fear Place Alice the Brave Being Danny’s Dog Ice Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blowup Alice in Lace Shiloh Season Ducks Disappearing Outrageously Alice The Healing of Texas Jake I Can’t Take You Anywhere Saving Shiloh Bernie Magruder and the Pirate’s Treasure Achingly Alice Danny’s Desert Rats Sang Spell Sweet Strawberries Alice on the Outside Walker’s Crossing Jade Green Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril The Grooming of Alice Carlotta’s Kittens and the Club of Mysteries Alice Alone Simply Alice Please DO Feed the Bears Starting with Alice Blizzard’s Wake Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry Patiently Alice Alice in Blunderland Atheneum Books for Young Readers An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2004 by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The poem on page 260, “Passing By,” was written by Thomas Ford (1580–1648). All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Book design by Ann Sullivan The text for this book is set in Berkeley Old Style. ISBN: 978-1-4391-3228-9(eBook) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Including Alice / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.—1st ed. p. cm. Summary: Fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment. ISBN 0-689-82637-0 [1. Remarriage—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Self-confidence —Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7 .N24In 2004 [Fic]—dc22 2003018210
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