Customer Reviews

Alice the Brave (Alice (Prebound))

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

One of the stories I liked was Alice the Brave I would give this book at least five stars. It's about this girl named Alice who has a very deep fear of water. She's in a club which is more like a swimming club. Her friends meet at a pool and swim almost every day. Alice just stays at the 2foot part of the pool. Toward the end of the story her brother Lester teaches her how to swim. My overall opinion about this book is that you can relate it to your lives or things that happen in teenage years. My favorite part is when she over comes her fear. The only thing I didn't like was that it could of been a little better or more specific. If you don't think this review is very detailed then read the book! If you like fear, romance, sillyness, and of course happy endings read this book.

My 2nd grader reads at a very advanced level and she and her grandmother picked this up one day at the library -- thank goodness most of the first few pages went right over her head before we took a closer look at the content. We passed this book around at a dinner party and it had all the adults blushing. Read the firt 20-25 pages first before deciding what age-appropriateness. The excerpts from the Arabian Nights details graphic, sexual scenes that may be ok for some readers, but I don't believe it belongs in the hands of even middle schoolers unless accompanied by a very frank discussion with a responsible adult. This was listed on our 5th grade summer reading list, but I don't think that I know many 10 or 11 year olds that should be reading about having their breasts described as lovely fruits and their virginity lost.

It's the summer before eighth grade, and all of Alice's friends practically live in Mark's pool. For weeks, Alice has managed to hide the fact she's afraid of deep water...until the boys threaten to throw her in, and Alice freaks out.

Her big brother Lester decides it's up to him to help Alice. She's not so sure, though, that she's ready to be helped...

Meanwhile, Alice and her best friends Elizabeth and Pamela are just as curious about sex as ever. Elizabeth smuggles a copy of "Arabian Nights" off her parents' shelf and reads excerpts aloud, confusing the girls even more. Plus, Alice's father is dating her seventh grade English teacher, and she has no qualms about badgering him with questions about their relationship. After all, she's just *got* to know!

Like the other "Alice" books, this one is funny and true, very realistic of an adolescent girl's hopes and worries.

Alice the brave is a good book. It's about how Alice overcomes her fear of deep water. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars is becuase Lester really sort of saves the day! Besides that, it's a really good book.

I thought this book was real great! But sometimes Alice can get a bit annoying because she's always butting into her dad's life. But I liked the Alice series because it's very realistic. Girls like talk about boys and school and stuff. It was a real good book.

Alice the Brave is a great book. It is in the summer and they like to go to Mark's pool alot. Though Alice is afraid of going in deep water she always comes anyway just to hang out. One she was sitting in a chair and they picked her up and tried to throw her in the water. She runs home in tears and embarassment.

Thsi is a really wonderful book and I recomend this book to anyone with fears. This is about Alice coming over her fear of swimming in the deep end. It is really great and i really recomend it!

Alice is back in one of the best books that Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written! Alice gets trapped when some boys and girls were hanging out at Mark's pool. Alice can't swim in deep water. So when Mark and the other boys try and fool around, Alice gets in trouble, and she needs to learn how to swim! This is a great book that I recommend to everyone that likes to read funny stories.

Alice the brave was a very realistic book. It tells about a young girl who struggles not only with being afraid of water but with fitting in socially and family wise. She strives for a mother to comfort her and a friend to guide her. It goes through the difficult choioces, changes, and differences of being a teen. I like this book because I could relate to it and it's message, if I try I can. It explained everything with a very descriptive word choice and created a picture in my mind. even though it exagerated most things we go through it emphasized on many things we struggle with. It was confusing at parts but soon explained them and gave you backround information. All in all this book was very interesting and coming from someone who dosn't really read it's a big compliment.

I thought the book was very good because it is about a girl who is afraid of the pool and I like swimming a lot. Alice is a teenager who has been afraid of the water sence she was little. She decides she is going to get help from her big brother. He teaches her how to swim and she surprises everybody when she jumps into the pool.