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When Alice spends the summer before her seventh grade year with her first boyfriend, she discovers that love can be a wonderfully confusing experience. With no mother to offer advice, Alice navigates the emotional twists and turns that come with young romance and growing up in a single‑parent family.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: Children's Fiction/Early Readers
Authors: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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