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I looked first at Pamela and then at Elizabeth. No ice cream, no chips, and jogging three miles with ankle weights? This was a summer? THE SUMMER BEFORE NINTH GRADE IS ALL about getting it right—from head to toe. Alice and her friends want to start high school feeling like they always imagined a true high schooler feels: confident, capable, pretty. But a little too much time standing in front of a mirror in their bathing suits makes Alice, Pamela, and Elizabeth feel just about as far away from “high-school ready” as possible. They have two and a half months to become the girls they think they should be … but when Elizabeth takes the weight-loss plan too seriously, Alice starts to worry that growing up (and slimming down) isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. DON’T MISS Meet the author, watch videos, and get extras at KIDS.SimonandSchuster.com COVER DESIGN BY JESSICA HANDELMAN COVER ILLUSTRATION COPYRIGHT © 2012 BY JULIA DENOS ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS SIMON & SCHUSTER • NEW YORK AGES 10–14 • 0312 Here’s what fans have to say about Alice:* “The reason I love these books is because Alice is not PERFECT she has real life problems like everybody else. She is a teenage girl that is trying to understand life. PLEASE KEEP COMING OUT WITH THESE WONDERFUL BOOKS. Sometimes I try and read the books a little slower so it will never be over!”—An Alice fan “I thought I read all the Alice books … [then] I went to the Young Adult section and saw a bunch more. I felt like screaming! I hope you continue writing Alice books forever… .”—Gina “Please, never stop writing Alice books. I hope they makes lots of girls as happy as they made me!”—Caitlin * Taken from actual postings on the Alice website. To read more, visit AliceMcKinley.com PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR includes many of her own life experiences in the Alice books. She writes for both children and adults, and is the author of more than one hundred and thirty-five books, including the Alice series, which Entertainment Weekly has called “tender” and “wonderful.” In 1992 her novel Shiloh won the Newbery Medal. She lives with her husband, Rex, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and is the mother of two grown sons and the grandmother of Sophia, Tressa, Garrett, and Beckett. The Grooming of Alice BOOKS BY PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR Shiloh Books Shiloh Shiloh Season Saving Shiloh The Alice Books Starting with Alice Alice in Blunderland Lovingly Alice 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 Patiently Alice Including Alice Alice on Her Way Alice in the Know Dangerously Alice Almost Alice Intensely Alice Alice in Charge Incredibly Alice Alice Collections I Like Him, He Likes Her It’s Not Like I Planned It This Way Please Don’t Be True The Bernie Magruder Books Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing Bodies Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel Bernie Magruder and the Drive-thru Funeral Parlor Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blowup Bernie Magruder and the Pirate’s Treasure Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry The Cat Pack Books The Grand Escape The Healing of Texas Jake Carlotta’s Kittens Polo’s Mother The York Trilogy Shadows on the Wall Faces in the Water Footprints at the Window The Witch Books Witch’s Sister Witch Water The Witch Herself The Witch’s Eye Witch Weed The Witch Returns Picture Books King of the Playground The Boy with the Helium Head Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear Keeping a Christmas Secret Ducks Disappearing I Can’t Take You Anywhere Sweet Strawberries Please DO Feed the Bears Books for Young Readers Josie’s Troubles How Lazy Can You Get? All Because I’m Older Maudie in the Middle One of the Third-Grade Thonkers Roxie and the Hooligans
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