Starting With Alice
Eight-year-old Alice moves to a new state with her father and brother (mom has died) and faces making new friends in a new school. She has a hard time with this but identifies her successes and slowly becomes open to friendships with more and more people.
I liked how Alice identified how silly it was to be feuding with a group of girls and then reached out to that group and befriended them. There is some incongruity between how this 8-year-old thinks and acts and how a real 8-year-old thinks and acts, but it did not significantly detract from the story.
Do you think Alice would have made for a good friend?
What would you have done if you were locked out of the house like Alice was?
How do you feel when embarrassing things happen to you?
Alice loved her surprise kitten. What is the best surprise someone could give you?
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