Alice In-Between Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Alice has waited all her life to be thirteen. Now that she's not a kid anymore, she talks often with her girlfriends about their bodies and about the boys at school. Still, Alice feels as if she's in-between being a woman and a child. On a train trip to Chicago with her friends, she finds that it's not so bad being in-between, especially when Pa... more »mela acts too old for her age and Elizabeth acts like a baby. During this same special time, Alice's friend Oatrick comes back into her life. Her summer in-between seventh and eighth grades is a time Alice will never forget.« less