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Title: Alice, I Think by Susan Juby ISBN: 0-06-051543-0 Publisher: HarperTempest Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For parents too
Comment: What a delightful read Susan Juby's book "Alice, I Think" is. Young readers will be able to identify but so will their parents. Susan has captured the somewhat difficult teenage years with a refreshing sense of humour. What a gifted writer to make us identify so strongly but want to laugh also and all without using foul language. I look forward to her next book. Edith MacKay, Smithers, B. C.
Rating: 5
Summary: Adrian Mole's Canadian alter ego
Comment: If you liked Adrian Mole you will love Alice. If you like to laugh you will like Alice. If you like to read you will like Alice. Anyone who doesn't is devoid of irony and the ability to laugh at oneself.
This is a great book, for young and old adults alike. Small town life is captured and reflected warts and all. The love hate relationship between kids and their parents is something we all experience. And Alice is a great portrait of someone who is trying to grow up in a community full of wierdos, good guys, bad girls and her mother's frightening freinds.
Read it, and laugh!
Rating: 5
Summary: fascinating, humorous, albeit wandering plot
Comment: I greatly enjoyed Susan Juby's debut novel "Alice, I Think". I did not put it down from start to finish. Having been home schooled myself by a relatable "hippie" mother for a short period during my elementary years; I found many of the issues to be whole and humorous truths. The plot line was not exactly firm, but as Juby was aiming to portray the diaried life of a teenage girl, we cannot entirely expect her to provide one. The form in which Alice scribed her life was hilarious; the dry humor could be lost on some. The characters were eclectic, and provided much spice to the story. I enjoyed Alice's attempts to become "alternative", trying the replicate her cousin franks hair cut (with disastrous-and then fufilling- consequences), "thrifting", and trying hard to become immune to pop culture, while inadvertently submitting herself to the worst form.
All in all, this was a well-rounded read, with laughs, life lessons, and much more. It is to be avoided if you lack the talent to pick up on dry humor, subtle sarcasm, and a strong sense of reading between the lines for humor not plainly stated. The book is a plain farce, and should be taken as so.
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Title: Fat Kid Rules the World (BCCB BLUE RIBBON FICTION BOOKS (AWARDS)) by K.L. Going ISBN: 0399239901 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly ISBN: 0152167056 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson ISBN: 0689849222 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler ISBN: 0763619582 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins ISBN: 0399238549 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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