BUYING ADVISORY: EL - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
10yo Alice lives in a big house in New York City with her dad and her grumpy, boring nanny. Both Alice and her dad grieve the loss of Alice's mother. Her dad decides to send her to the French Riviera to spend the summer with some very good friends of his; Sara and Gerald Murphy and their three children and pet monkey. Through all the fun adventures of the summer, and basking in the love and acceptance of the Murphy family, Alice has the best summer of her life. She even takes lessons from real artists like Pablo Picasso, Serge Diaghilev and also Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.
The cool thing about this book, even though the story is fiction, the Murphy family were real people and they were friends with the very famous people in the book. I highly recommend this book. It will be a great read-aloud, or read on your own book. I can't wait to introduce it to some students. The characters are white
Ellen-Anita. Librarian
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