Alice in Rapture, Sort of - Hardcover

This sequel to The Agony of Alice covers the summer between grade school and junior high, when Alice and her sixth-grade friend Patrick start dating.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Rex, says that she has been through many of the agonies and raptures that Alice McKinley experiences in this book and is glad that she doesn't have to go through them again. She is the mother of two grown sons, Jeff and Michael, the caretaker of two cats, Ulysses and Marco, and when she is not writing, which is most of the time-enjoys hiking, swimming, and the theater. She is the author of over sixty books, including The Agony of Alice, Night Cry, The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel, Beetles, Lightly Toasted, Maudie in the Middle, and One of the Third Grade Thonkers.