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Alice in Lace

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"Alice in Lace" was another great novel on Alice McKinley, an ordinary 13 year-old girl.

In this novel, Alice and Patrick are getting married, Pamela is pregnant, and Elizabeth is buying a car. Not to mention Karen shoplifting and Jill burying her grandmother! What? Well, it's all part of the Critical Choices unit in Alice's 8th grade class: everyone receives a hypothetical situation and solves it.

This book was filled with humor, especially when Alice and her friends try to solve their situations! Teenages can really relate to this book. :) Be sure to read all of the other "Alice" books!

Alice and Patrick are getting married,Pamela's pregnant,and elizabeth is buying a car! Well,at least in Mr.everrets health class.They all have to make "critical choices'.I can't tell you what pamela did,but it is so funny!

As Alice begins the eighth grade, she suddenly finds herself planning her own wedding. In heath class, Alice and her friends are given hypothetical situations to help them make wise decisions. Some students "became" pregnant, planned a wedding, bought a car, planned a funeral, and received a DWI. As the story progresses, the eighth graders realize that their assignment in health class becomes a reality shock. As part of their assignment, they had to experience their situations fully. Alice comes to realize that eighth grade is exciting yet complicated. Complications include trying to plan a wedding with the absence of her mother and learning something about her last year's English teacher, Ms. Summers, who is dating her father. Some exciting events were when one of her brother's old girlfriends makes a surprising announcement and a new person arrives. This is a great book; it gives students insight and connections to the real world. By reading the book, the reader can become part of the eighth grade health class. The book is very easy to read and keeps you on your toes. You will not want to put it down! This book would be interesting to students in seventh and eighth grades. Parents and teachers could use Alice In Lace to bring the awareness to the students about what lies beyond the classroom. In the classroom, teachers could promote social relationships, math, art, music, and geography.

All the Alice books are great but this is definatly the best! In Mr.Everett's class they each get an assignment- Alice and Patrick are getting married, Elizabeth's buying a car, Pamela's pregnant, Karen got arrested for shoplifting, ...and Jill has to bury her grandmother. Read it now to find out what happens.

Summary:
Alice is an everyday ordinary girl who gets an interesting assignment in her health class in the eighth grade. She and her friends all receive real-life assignments of situations in order to learn how to deal with and explore the characteristics of their situations. Alice and her boyfriend Patrick are assigned to plan a wedding on a budget of five thousand dollars and still have money for the honeymoon, furniture, and their first months rent where ever they decide to live.
Alice and her friends learn through this assignment that life is full of important decisions and some of them can be planned for, and others are unexpected. The question is, how do you handle it?

Reflection:
Overall, this book had a cute story line that could help children and young adults learn to deal with situations that may occur such as planning your grandmother's funeral, getting pregnant unexpectedly, buying a car, or having a limb amputated to name a few. This story could be useful in helping children learn to plan ahead and make wise decisions. However, there were some details in the story that were perverted and would not be appropriate to let a child read due to the fact that it would cause the mind to wonder and visualizations that would not be appropriate for the age level and needs not be promoted anyway. Personally, we would not use this book in a classroom activity or allow our own children to read it. This would have been a very cute book had the sexual content been left out.

I've read tons of reviews of people-adults-who think these books are inappropriate. Well, guess what? Phyllis Reynolds Naylor knows a lot more about what girls that age care about than those complaining adults, because girls in that age range think of sex! It's natural! They're curious! That's what makes Alice so realistic, that she's curious too. How can a book with reasonable sexual content (this book discusses but EXTREMELY DISCOURAGES premarital sex and other things) be inappropriate for girls who think about sex, too? This book is well-written and HILARIOUS! I love the part when Elizabeth has to pick out a car for her assignment. GO ALICE!

Hey I think this book is great . If you like the Alice seris and a read the books it's just another book to read. And if you have never read any alice books and you are between 10 and older you will love it to. It starts of with Health class and Alice and all of her friedns have situations that they have to deal with. Like if they were geting married or having a baby or geting a car. Alice ends up in the situation what would happen if she had to marry her boy friend Patrick this is a and this just is what happens in the first few pages. It is so funny you will laugh though the whole thing. So if you are wondering if you should read the book you should and it's wroth the money .

This book rocked! Alice and Patrick get married, Pamela is pregnant , and Elizabeth is buying a car! Want to know what's happining, ya gotta read it to find out!

I love it. This was the the first book I couldn't put down. I read it for a book report project. I loved the book so much I read the whole Alice McKinley series. I suggest this book to any 12-14 year old girl. I liked the part where they threw a wedding for Patrick and Alice in class. The other part I liked was when Pamela was intervewing for a job looking pregnant. These parts were just the half of the good parts in the book. You'll have to read it to believe it.

All of the Alice books are wonderful! If you haven't readany... start now!!! The characters are believable and Alice isdelightful!