Miss Smithers - Softcover

Juby, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060515481 ISBN 13: 9780060515485

Publisher: HarperTeen, 2005

Synopsis

Aware of her own inner beauty and completely self-assured, Alice enters Miss Smithers pageant to prove her competitors wrong and teach everyone at school an important lesson they won't soon forget. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

SUSAN JUBY is the author of the critically acclaimed Another Kind of Cowboy, as well as the bestselling Alice series: Alice, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last. She holds a master’s degree in publishing. She currently lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, James, and their dog, who prefers to remain anonymous. Visit her online at www.susanjuby.com.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 9 Up–Alice MacLeod, 16, had been homeschooled since being pulled out of first grade for thinking she was a hobbit. Now she attends alternative school, and describes herself as "a total misfit," so she is understandably surprised when the Smithers Rod and Gun Club asks her to be their representative for the local beauty pageant. She keeps a diary of all of her school and pageant misadventures, including cantankerous descriptions of her hippie parents, friends, and fellow contestants. Alice's meanderings through a religious group, alcohol experimentation, and fruitless hopes for a first sexual encounter seem contrived for their shock value. Although she is certainly intelligent and insightful (with a very sharp cutting edge), she never seems to understand that she's her own worst enemy until the end. By that point, it's too little too late, and readers will have trouble caring if she gets it or not. She seems to veer from one ridiculous or dangerous situation to the next, and blames much of it on everybody else (sometimes correctly, but often not). Despite its wit and spearing of inane beauty contests, teens will have trouble finding this book's heart, or Alice's.–Paula J. LaRue, Van Wert City Schools, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTeen
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060515481
• ISBN 13: 9780060515485
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336