Alice-By-Accident

By Lynne Reid Banks

Subjects: Fatherless families, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Single-parent families, England, fiction, Grandmothers, England, Girls, fiction, Mother and child, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Authorship, Authorship, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Schools, Mothers and daughters

Description: Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.