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Ever since Alice arrived at first grade dressed as a hobbit and endured a week of increasingly violent peer rejection, she has been home schooled by her hippie mom and indifferent dad, leaving her with what her therapist calls "a shocking poverty of age-appropriate real-life experience." Now Alice’s inept new therapist, Death Lord Bob, has cornered her into agreeing to go to the public high school. Actually, this fits right in with Alice’s career aspirations to become a cultural critic, and her eighties style statement would be working out pretty much all right (especially after she gets a great haircut somewhat by accident) if it weren’t for her old nemesis Linda, now grown seriously homicidal, and her two head banger henchmen. Alice’s sensible observations are a rich source of humor in this very funny first novel, as she tries to get her life together in spite of the peculiar aberrations of the "normal" teen and adult population of Smithers, a small ingrown town in British Columbia where entertainment opportunities are limited to excuse-to-drink events like the Northern Saddle Sores’ Family Trail Ride. Her mother is the kind of tie-dye clad woman who holds a sage-burning ceremony for safety before starting out on a back-to-school shopping trip, and her friends include bookstore owner Corinne, who is allergic to books. Her romance-writing father’s poker cronies are equally colorful: gay but style-challenged Finn and taxi-owning Marcus, who has a succession of twenty-years-younger girlfriends who need a ride. When Alice’s sullen girl cousin Frank arrives, a parents’ nightmare with her bizarre outfits and stuffed-animal backpack filled with bottles and baggies, Alice observes the resulting hullabaloo with amused satisfaction, and after a hilarious, precarious car trip to a Fish Show and Drum Workshop, she finds herself well on the way to acquiring a friend and a boyfriend. Older teens will enjoy the story and the many descriptions of wacky clothes if they can get past the misguided cover, a picture of five-year-old Alice's chubby hobbit-clad legs. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell
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Goethals does a superb turn as Alice, the alienated teen possessed of a biting sarcasm who stars in Juby's frequently hilarious novel. Providing the perfect air of intelligence tinged with teen angst, Goethals gives Alice's journal about her various travails an undercurrent of energy. Alice, who feels like a true misfit, has been home-schooled for years and will soon enter a public high school. Whether she's keenly critiquing her hippie mother's feminist friends (of the armpit-hair-growing, patchouli-wearing ilk), her father's slacker pals or her generally inept teachers and counselors, Alice offers a unique view of common teenage scenarios and complaints. She suffers at the hands of bullies, feels awkward around boys and longs to create a special "look" for herself, just like most kids her age. Her ever-present family is a source of love and comfort as well as embarrassment. But what makes this tale unusual is Alice's ability to see her everyday dramas in the context of a bigger picture of her life. Particularly entertaining are Goethals's spot-on mocking imitations of the overly caring or just plain daffy authority figures in Alice's life. Teens-and adults who remember their own teen years well-will find much to like here, including plenty of pop-culture references. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Death Lord, Life Goals, Prince George, Uncle Laird, The Hobbit, New Age, Officer Ross, Thank God, Driftwood Hall, Grocery Giant, Life Skills, Mountain Lighthouse Brambleberry, Transition Club, Violet the Victim, Buddhist Temple Blend, Garth Brooks, Terrace Community Center, The Fellowship of the Ring New!
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I blame it all on The Hobbit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Death Lord, Life Goals, Prince George, Uncle Laird, The Hobbit, New Age, Officer Ross, Thank God, Driftwood Hall, Grocery Giant, Life Skills, Mountain Lighthouse Brambleberry, Transition Club, Violet the Victim, Buddhist Temple Blend, Garth Brooks, Terrace Community Center, The Fellowship of the Ring New!
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- Miss Smithers by Susan Juby in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell on page 138
- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell on page 138
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