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Alice has spent her childhood and early teen years being homeschooled by her overprotective but bohemian parents. This situation has given her "a shocking poverty of age-appropriate real-life experience," prompting her to search for direction, as outlined in her seven Life Goals. Alice fills her diary with blunt observations delivered with dead-pan--if occasionally unintentional--wit. And she emerges as a character worthy of admiration.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2003