Great Books (Teen Fiction Plus More) 3
Discover timeless teen fiction and coming-of-age classics in Great Books (Teen Fiction Plus More) 3. Featuring Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s beloved Alice series—including *The Agony of Alice*, *Alice the Brave*, and *Alice in Rapture, Sort of*—plus gripping reads like Nicholas Sparks' *Three Weeks with My Brother* and Elizabeth Strout's *Amy and Isabelle*. From young adult drama to heartfelt biographies, this curated book list is perfect for teens, educators, and nostalgic readers seeking captivating stories about growing up. Explore top-rated juvenile and YA fiction picks all in one place!
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Three Weeks with My Brother
by Nicholas Sparks
In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.
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The Agony of Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Right from the start, readers know that Alice McKinney is something special. In this, her very first book, Alice is in sixth grade, right on the cusp of adolescence and increasingly anxious about growing up in a household with no other females. "A wonderfully funny and touching story".--"Booklist", starred review.
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All But Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Seventh grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in" crowd, no matter how boring and, potentially, difficult.
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Reluctantly Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.
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Alice in Rapture, Sort of
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The summer before she enters the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend and she discovers that love is about the most mixed-up thing that can possibly happen to her, especially since she has no mother to go to for advice.
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Alice the Brave
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The summer before eighth grade, Alice attempts to confront her many fears--one of which is of deep water.
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Alice Alone
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Alice's first year in high school gets off to a difficult start when she and her boyfriend Patrick break up, but with the help of her father, older brother, and best friends, she gains a better sense of her own self-worth.
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The Grooming of Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Most Exciting Summer of Their Lives That's what Pamela says about the summer before ninth grade, and she, Alice, and Elizabeth are determined to make the most of it. All three girls are getting into shape for the new school year by jogging three miles a day and cutting down on junk food, and Alice is enjoying her volunteer job at the local hospital. But things keep happening that Alice hadn't counted on. Her satisfaction with her job is marred by an unexpected sorrow. Her attempt to be a loyal friend to Pamela gets her in trouble with her father and brother, big time. And both she and Pamela are afraid that Elizabeth may be taking her efforts to lose weight too seriously. Could the most exciting summer of their lives be a little too exciting?
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Simply Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Life After Patrick It isn't Alice and Patrick anymore; it's simply Alice, and much to her surprise, Alice is finding that's okay. In fact, working on the school play and becoming increasingly involved in the newspaper have Alice so busy she doesn't have much time for her best friends Pamela and Elizabeth -- and they resent it. And if Alice ever needed friends, she needs them now. She's got a secret e-mail admirer she's not sure how to handle. Her brother, Lester, is plunging headlong into a risky romance with a professor. And her new friend, Faith, seems unable to break free of an abusive relationship with her boyfriend. It's not simple being simply Alice.
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Including Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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.
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Starting with Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
In this first of three planned prequels to the beloved Alice series, Naylor introduces an eight-year-old Alice to a younger audience. Here, Alice finds that starting the third grade in a new town can be lonely.
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Amy and Isabelle
by Elizabeth Strout
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets. “One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle… In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls—a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boys—only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past. A Reader's Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.
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These Granite Islands
by Sarah Stonich
A woman on her deathbed recalls the summer of 1936, when her new friend, Cathryn, transformed the way she thought forever, in an intimate story of friendship, marriage, and relationships. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.