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Gr 7-10 This installment in the series takes place during the summer between Alice -s sophomore and junior years. Her older brother -s beautiful black girlfriend ends their relationship because her family objects to her marrying outside of her race, and an acquaintance is diagnosed with leukemia, which is what Alice -s mother died from several years earlier. Neither subplot weighs down the story, which places its emphasis on more ordinary events in the life of th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This twenty-first book in the long-running series follows Alice and friends through the summer before their junior year of high school. Alice looks forward to hanging out with the gang at Mark Stedmeister's pool, working at a department store in the mall (her first non-Melody Inn job), and getting to know her older brother Lester's girlfriend ("a woman of color," as Alice refers to her). ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More