| Dangerously Alice | 
 enlarge | Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 220481
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1
ISBN: 0689870957
EAN: 9780689870958
ASIN: 0689870957
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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Product Description
Alice has always tried to be a decent person. She gets good grades, comes home on time, and has never really given her dad and her stepmom any reason to worry. But now that junior year of high school has started, Alice is a little sick of people assuming she's a goody-goody, so she decides to start shaking things up. First there are the dates with Tony, a cute senior who's a lot more experienced than Alice. Then the fights with her stepmom about the new cat, the car, and everything else start. But when Alice sneaks off to a party that her parents don't know about and a near-tragedy follows, she starts to realize every choice has a consequence, and danger rarely leads to good ones.Funny, realistic, and always provocative, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor does it again, proving that she understands what real girls think and feel, with this twenty-second book in the beloved Alice series.
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 Courtesy of Teens Read Too May 8, 2008
On my book bag I proudly wear a pin which declares "I Read Banned Books." I now have to get one which says "I Proudly Review Banned Books!"
The ALICE series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has been in the top ten of books which are challenged every year. I bought most of the series for my youngest daughter, who loves them. She loves the realism of the stories and how the feelings that Alice has are just like her own. And I love them because Alice is a normal girl: she may get into trouble, but she learns from her mistakes and so do the readers.
DANGEROUSLY ALICE finds Alice in her junior year of high school. She works on the school newspaper and has a terrible crush on Scott, the editor of the paper. She has also been labeled by the "cool" crowd as MGT, which means Miss Goody-Two-Shoes.
Alice decides that she needs to be a little more reckless and not so boring. She does a few daring stunts, but after she does them she figures out that being boring is not as bad as some people think it is. Liking yourself and doing the right thing is what is important.
I especially like the way that Alice gets along with her relatives. She has a great relationship with her brother and father. She is having trouble getting along with her stepmother though, and the situation is handled realistically and with compromises on both sides.
I love the Alice books and can't wait to read the next one.
Reviewed by: Marta Morrison
 danger in dangerously alice March 21, 2008
In dangerously alice you can see she is getting much older and mature.but as karen and jill say she is dd and mgt witch stands for dry as dust and miss goody two shoes.but she is defedently not either of those now!like riding without a helmet on her boyfriends motersycle,accidentally spying on her step mom and her dad having sex,and I have to say I loved it!
 Dangerous is right! January 13, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book blew me away. I am a mother of two tween-aged girls who began their journey through the Alice books innocently enough about 6 months ago. They loved the books. They were in the juvenile section of the library and by an author I considerED to be trustworthy. My girls ordered almost all of the books and read through them like lightening. Great, huh? Twelve and thirteen year olds that can't put the books down...
I finally checked out one of the books for myself. I asked my daughter for the copy of Dangerously Alice, which she had begun but was only a few chapters into. As we are not allowed to add profanity nor sexual content in our reviews, I cannot tell you what I found on pages 144-147, nor 214-217. Those contain the main "adult" sections of the book. There is profanity throughout.
I am not pleased with this author and find it repulsive that she would rob our little girls of their innocense. Please consider this if you plan to let your child read this or any other books by Ms. Naylor. Apparantly Alice has a dangerous, distructive road ahead, and I, for one, don't want my girls hitching a ride.
We know more than you think November 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a thirteen-year-old girl, so I know a bit about peer pressure. I've read these Alice books ever since I was in the fourth grade, and I picked up The Agony of Alice. I can't wait for the next book to come.
PRN really made a connection with me. I have a sixteen-year-old sister, so I know a thing or two about fighting. I liked the part about Alice being on the motorcylce, only I wish she may have enjoyed it a little more. I also liked the part when she fights with Sylvia, then the cat pukes on her shoes. It didn't feel staged or boring at all.
I didn't feel that the book was gross. Some teenage girls do things you can't even imagine, so forgive me for saying that making out isn't exactly the worst you could do.
I am an avid bible-reader, and I hope Alice saves herself for marriage. Not that I won't read it if she doesn't. It's just that I hope she does. Anyways, read this and enjoy it, and wait for the next one to come out. If it's anything like this one, then I'm sure it'll be a hit.
best series ever!! October 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i loved this book soo much i jst couldnt put it down i love alice & it looks like alice is never gonna stop embarassing herself!!
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