When Audrey Met Alice
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Publisher Description
Living in the White House is like being permanently grounded. Only with better security.
First Daughter Audrey Rhodes can't wait for the party she has planned. The decorations are all set and the pizza is on its way. But the Secret Service must be out to ruin her life, because they cancel at the last minute, squashing Audrey's chances for making any new friends. What good is having your own bowling alley if you don't have anyone to play with?
Audrey is ready to give up and spend the next four years totally friendless—until she discovers Alice Roosevelt's hidden diary. The former First Daughter's outrageous antics give Audrey a ton of ideas for having fun...and get her into more trouble than she can handle.
A fun, smart middle grade debut that brings a fascinating historical character to vibrant life in an accessible, modern context
Praise for When Audrey Met Alice:
"The combination of humor, history, light romance and social consciousness make Rebecca Behrens' debut novel a winner."—BookPage
"Rebecca Behrens combines charming and quirky characters from two different centuries, creating a believable, engaging story that tugs at the heart and tickles the funny bone."—Nikki Loftin, award-winning author of The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy
"Outrageous and riveting. …this book aims to inspire and stir young girls to unearth their inner Alice Roosevelt and to 'eat up the world.'"—School Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Behrens's entertaining debut, 13-year old-Audrey Rhodes finds life as the President's daughter stifling. Audrey's big party is canceled over a security breach, her classmates only see her as "Fido" (short for First Daughter), her mother is busy running the country, and her father is occupied with cancer research. When Audrey discovers the hidden journal of former First Daughter Alice Roosevelt, "the nation's first celebrity" (as Behrens puts it in an afterword) and a freewheeling wild child, she finds a kindred spirit. Audrey's Alice-inspired adventures don't always turn out well (like the flapper dress she wears to a state dinner), but they get Audrey on the road to "eating up the world," as Alice likes to say. Alice's (invented) journal entries appear throughout and offer a window into the life of this fearless historical figure though, as Behrens notes, "when it came to good fiction versus factual accuracy, fiction won." Details of life in the White House, combined with Audrey's more ordinary struggles (including the potential for a first boyfriend), will keep readers hooked. Ages 9 up.
