What to Do about Alice? by Barbara Kerley
If you like rebel girls, you will LOVE Alice Roosevelt!A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor BookA Sibert Honor Book* "Superb... a gleeful celebration." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTheodore Roosevelt had a small problem. Her name was Alice. Alice Lee Roosevelt was hungry to go places, meet people, do things. Father called it "running riot." Alice called it "eating up the world." Whether she was entertaining important White House visitors with her pet snake or traveling the globe, Alice bucked convention and turned every new experience into an adventure!Brimming with affection and wit, this spirited biography gives readers a peek at family life inside the White House. Prose and pictures spring, gambol, and two-step across the pages to celebrate a maverick American heroine.
A Cold Drink of Water and You and Me Together are two of Barbara Kerley's earlier National Geographic books. Her acclaimed Walt Whitman: Words for America got an American Library Association Sibert Honor Prize for educational books, and her work The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins was a 2002 Caldecott Honor book. She served in the Peace Corps in Nepal and currently resides in McKinleyville, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780439922319 |
| ISBN 10 | 0439922313 |
| Title | What to Do about Alice? |
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scholastic US |
| Year published | 2008-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Prizes | Winner of Washington State Book Award (Children's) 2009, Commended for Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2008, Commended for Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (Children's Book) 2009, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Seven to Ten) 2009, Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) (Nonfiction) 2008, Commended for Irma S. & James H. Black Award 2009, Short-listed for Bluebonnet Awards 2010, Short-listed for Monarch Award 2010, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Grades K-3) 2010, Short-listed for Beehive Awards (Informational) 2010 |
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