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A review by aoutrance
Alice In-Between by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Nick Vaccaro
3.0
The Alice books were one of my main source of information about puberty and growing up in a fun, non-clinical manner. There was no internet to be had when I was a preteen and the very idea of speaking to my mother about this sort of thing filled me with horror (still does, to be honest!) To my mother's credit, I think she may have known this, because she was always very understanding of my need for knowledge and did not protest my urging for weekly library trips.
I mostly remember this particular Alice book as one that actually explained the "pencil test", because I had it all sorts of confused in my head prior to reading it. Come to find out, doing this test with your friends around at a sleepover is quite like worrying about quicksand as a child: it's a lot less prevalent than you were led to believe.
I mostly remember this particular Alice book as one that actually explained the "pencil test", because I had it all sorts of confused in my head prior to reading it. Come to find out, doing this test with your friends around at a sleepover is quite like worrying about quicksand as a child: it's a lot less prevalent than you were led to believe.