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It's not like I planned it this way
In Including Alice, fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment. In Alice on her way, Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her new boyfriend, and getting a driver's license. In Alice in the know, during the summer before junior year, Alice, while working at the local department store, must deal with a friend being diagnosed with cancer, her brother getting dumped by his girlfriend, and her group of friends who have started taking things to an uncomfortable new level.
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An Interview with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor writes for both children and adults, and is the author of over a hundred twenty-five books and 2,000 articles and stories. She combines productivity with literary acclaim, culminating in a Newbery Award Medal for Shiloh (1992). Naylor is also well known for the popular Alice series, which presents conflicts between boys and girls in a humorous way. She was born in Anderson, Indiana, and has also lived in Illinois and Minnesota. Naylor published her first book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, in 1965. She currently makes her home in Bethesda, Maryland.
Journal Article
Now I'll tell you everything
As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
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Point of Departure
As I began reading Claudia Mills's perspective on writing children's books, I thought, \"How can I add anything to this? She's writing about me!\" I'm the mother of two boys; I write novels by hand using the same battered clipboard on which I began my writing career; I write my nonfiction stuff on the computer, and I'll bet that my Danny the Drainpipe was every bit as good as her Campbell the Tomato, though she had the better title.
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Boys in control
Once again the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back.
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To Be Continued
Naylor discloses that a more serious problem in writing series where the protagonist matures and changes is that the author tends to see each book as part of a continuum rather than a separate story, and that most lives do not revolve around huge events that change the course but rather a series of smaller experiences that accrue meaning over time. He shares that among his rules when writing a series are that he has to be truly enthusiastic about the project, he doesn't do more than one book per series per year, and he never writes two books in the same series back to back.
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Boys against girls
The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue.
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The Writing of \Shiloh\
A writer discusses the experiences she went through that became the basis for her latest novel, \"Shiloh.\" While on a trip to Maryland, the writer came across a stray dog and found out that many pets were dropped off in the hills by owners that no longer wanted them. Her novel is about a boy who finds a stray, abused dog.
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The girls get even
As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia.
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