The story follows Alice McKinley, an eleven-year-old girl who is about to enter the sixth grade. Alice lives with her loving but entirely male-dominated family: her sweet, slightly clueless father, Ben, and her nineteen-year-old brother, Lester. Alice’s mother died of cancer when Alice was just a toddler, leaving her with no memory of her and, crucially, no older female figure to guide her th…
The title itself acts as a summary of the protagonist's emotional state throughout the book. It centers on a girl who faces a series of unfortunate, mortifying, and hilariously awkward situations that make her feel like she wants to disappear from the face of the earth.
s Alice enters her eighth-grade summer, she is mortified by the prospect of being the only one in her group who cannot swim. Determined to overcome her fear before the upcoming summer camp trip, she secretly enlists the help of her older brother, Lester, to teach her how to swim at a local pool.
Outrageously Alice (1997) is the delightfully funny, awkward, and deeply empathetic eighth novel in the critically acclaimed, 28-book Alice Series written by Newbery Medal-winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The book marks a major psychological milestone in the series: Alice McKinley is officially entering the eighth grade. Moving away from early childhood antics, the narrative focuses h…