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Patiently Alice (2004)

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0689870736 (ISBN13: 9780689870736)
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Patiently Alice (2004) - Plot & Excerpts

I knew I shouldn't have, but I picked this up at my local library on Saturday afternoon and started reading it shortly after. I had been wanting to read it for quite awhile even though it is a little bit older (2003). I think it would make a great summer read and it made me want summer vacation to come quicker!In this story we follow Alice, a 15-year-old girl that is going to be a Sophomore in the fall. She goes away for 3 weeks to Camp Overlook with her friends as a counselor. Alice and her friends get excited when they realize...it's a coed camp! Besides the outdoors, bonfires, boys, and smores there are some troubles with the kids at the camp. Mostly prejudice! Alice is also sad to find out her dad and Step mom-to-be are postponing their wedding and her older brother, Lester is moving out! By the end of the summer Alice is ready to go back to school!Definitely got me excited for summer! :) Happy reading!

This is sort of a placeholder book. It's as well-written as the other Alice books, but it takes place largely at camp. The camp story is fun, but when Alice is in camp, she's not at home, and we don't get to see her interact with the her wonderful older brother Lester, and with her father - and those are some of my favorite interactions and relationships in the books.It felt like an in-between book in a lot of ways. Not bad, but not as strong a story as some of the other books in the Alice series.

What do You think about Patiently Alice (2004)?

#18 Alice with three of her friends head to a 3 week camp to be counselors after her freshman year in high school, Elizabeth falls in love, Pamela continues to have parent problems, Lester moves out to his own home, and Alice's Dad has to delay his marriage several months because of illness in Sylvia's family.
—B

Did I just go out and by the next six books in this series? Yes I did. This particular one was kinda lame since it took place at a summer camp and that limits possible things going on. There was too much of a growing up period during this one because it was the girl's jobs to look after little kids as camp counselors during a 3 week summer camp in the woods.The big storyline was the idea of having sex because they brought condoms to the camp. Might seem weird but at age 15, that's pretty much what girls and especially guys are thinking about so I'm glad it was a relevant topic that was discussed at length throughout the book. And then to discover that one of them DID go all the way makes it even more shocking but truthful and that's what you want in a book. I think that's why I'm so captivated by this series.
—Kip Arney

Alice is an assistant counselor at a summer camp for disadvantaged children. She, Pamela, Elizabeth, and Gwen are thrust into more adult roles at the camp, hang out with male counselors, and grow up a little bit more...Book takes place: Summer between 9th and 10th grade.Alice's life lessons: Kindness and toleranceBest Alice moment(s): The Kelpie; Lester's confession with the Buster Browns; skinny dipping; viva la differenceThis had a Baby-Sitters Club feel to it. Alice's world continues to expand, and she learns more about her own privilege (despite not having a mother, she has a loving home and great father & brother). Elizabeth falls for another counselor, Ross, despite his living in Philadelphia, and goes further than Pamela or Alice ever have. It's revealed that Gwen has had sex. Lester moves out.
—Elissa

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