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Miss Smithers
By Juby, Susan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06051-546-1 978-0-06051-547-8
- Publisher
- HarperTempest
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2004
Gr 9-Up Alice MacLeod, 16, had been homeschooled since being pulled out of first grade for thinking she was a hobbit. Now she attends alternative school, and describes herself as "a total misfit," so she is understandably surprised when the Smithers Rod and Gun Club asks her to be their representative for the local beauty pageant. She keeps a diary of all of her school and pageant misadventures, including cantanker...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2004
Misfit Alice McLeod, trying so desperately to grow up with some semblance of normalcy (see Alice, I Think, rev. 7/03), believes she has finally achieved that dream. "Concrete proof...is that just last week my parents had a party for my sixteenth birthday and there were people there who were not blood relatives. One of them was even my age!" Perhaps a small st...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
