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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Alice Books, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I’m just going to go full-on “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” on this one, okay?
THOSE TWO CHICKS (Crystal and Marilyn) HER BROTHER DATES AT THE SAME TIME FOR ABOUT FIVE BOOKS?
When she memorized “Thanatopsis” for class, but wound up reciting the ballad that reminded her of her mom instead?
When Pamela didn’t think she needed deodorant yet, but she totally did?
When the boys were yelling out the state that your boobs resembled, i.e. Kansas bad?
Miss Summers, so sweet! Aunt Sally, such a prude!
Abyssinian sobbings? And Alice is all “WHAT? I thought he just put his penis in, I didn’t know you had to do OTHER STUFF?”
Elizabeth Price? The Mary-Ann of the Alice books?
Also, ZOMG, she keeps writing them, so I just ordered all of the ones that came out since I left for college. MANY FUCKING ALICE BOOKS, Y’ALL. There are, like, neo-Nazis in them now? And pregnancies? AND SOMEONE DIES?
No, for serious though, these are a) the sweetest books, and b) WAY MORE USEFUL TO PRE-TEEN GIRLS THAN ANY OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO WAS BORN IN 1933.
TRUTH.
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latrademark reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
books were my world. Must.read.moar.
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-ashleychristy- said:
Every time I go to a used book store I look for these. I have read about five of them and I LOVED them. I remember reading about the “boxer check” in fifth grade and being SHOCKED.
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progressivelyworse said:
Um, yes. 1. The pencil test. So scandalous in 5th grade. and 2. Wasn’t there a train trip sans parents where Pamela was advocating unbuttoning 2 buttons on her shirt which lead to unwanted attention from an older man?
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pissiechrissie said:
I need to reread these, and also read all the ones that came out when I went to college.
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tersaudades reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
McKinley was my girl from fourth grade onwards. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was my Judy Blume,
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bthny said:
ALSO did you know that Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has a blog and that she responds to fan e-mails? alicemckinley.wordpress…
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