Lovingly Alice
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Lovingly Alice is the third part of the trilogy
of prequel
s from the Alice series
written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
. It was released on August 24, 2004 and is about Alice's emotional ups and downs as she goes through 5th grade.
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Alice gets into fifth grade. During the book, her cat Oatmeal dies because of a heart problem. Alice is really angry at God because he didn't save her cat's life. Later in the book, her friend Sara disappears. At first, Alice is very worried that Sara was kidnapped or something, but then she finds out that at Sara moved to her grandmother into another town. Also, Alice's best friend, Rosalind, tells her that she's having her period. She is angry, because Alice isn't happy for her. But the reason is that Alice doesn't know, what "having your period means. When she asks her brother Les, but he thinks Alice is asking about the mathematical period. Still, somehow Alice manages to find out. She also has sex education at school, which causes shocks.
Even though everything seems solved, at the end of the book, Alice has got to move a few miles from Takoma Park to Silver Spring.
And when she wants to tell Rosalind goodbye, Alice finds out that Rosalind is on holidays in Wisconsin.
Trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...
of prequel
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
s from the Alice series
Alice series
The Alice series is a [book series] written by [Phyllis Reynolds Naylor]. There are three prequels to this series. The first one, Starting with Alice, describes Alice in third grade. Alice in Blunder land is Alice in fourth grade. The final prequel, Lovingly Alice, follows Alice through the...
written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is an American author best known for her children and young adult fiction books. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel trilogy Shiloh , Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, all made into movies...
. It was released on August 24, 2004 and is about Alice's emotional ups and downs as she goes through 5th grade.
'
Alice gets into fifth grade. During the book, her cat Oatmeal dies because of a heart problem. Alice is really angry at God because he didn't save her cat's life. Later in the book, her friend Sara disappears. At first, Alice is very worried that Sara was kidnapped or something, but then she finds out that at Sara moved to her grandmother into another town. Also, Alice's best friend, Rosalind, tells her that she's having her period. She is angry, because Alice isn't happy for her. But the reason is that Alice doesn't know, what "having your period means. When she asks her brother Les, but he thinks Alice is asking about the mathematical period. Still, somehow Alice manages to find out. She also has sex education at school, which causes shocks.
Even though everything seems solved, at the end of the book, Alice has got to move a few miles from Takoma Park to Silver Spring.
And when she wants to tell Rosalind goodbye, Alice finds out that Rosalind is on holidays in Wisconsin.