Susan Juby
(Can) was an editor with a self-help book publisher when
she first began writing, setting out to pen a comedy that
would make her friends and relatives laugh. This became
her acclaimed début novel Alice, I Think, Amazon.com's
Top Teen Book of 2003, now published in three different
languages and optioned for a television series. She followed
it up with the equally-acclaimed Miss Smithers,
a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature
Prize and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and a nominee
for the White Pine Award. Susan comes to WordFest with the
third novel in this amazing series, Alice MacLeod: Realist
at Last.
Alice MacLeod: Realist at Last
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2005
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Alice MacLeod is looking forward to her summer vacation – that is before her boyfriend moves to Scotland and her
mother is incarcerated for her participation in an environmental protest. Alice must now take on summer jobs to help
out with the family finances. In true Alice fashion, nothing will go as planned as her stints as a waitress, a summer camp
nature guide and a salesperson at a knitting store go awry. How can Alice have time for a boyfriend and become rich
and famous by finishing her screenplay (populated by Very Attractive People) if she has to work so much? Join Alice as
she contemplates life, love, fame and thrift store fashion.
Alice MacLeod: Realist at Last
Written by Susan Juby HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2005
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Alice MacLeod is looking forward to her summer vacation – that is before her boyfriend moves to Scotland and her
mother is incarcerated for her participation in an environmental protest. Alice must now take on summer jobs to help
out with the family finances. In true Alice fashion, nothing will go as planned as her stints as a waitress, a summer camp
nature guide and a salesperson at a knitting store go awry. How can Alice have time for a boyfriend and become rich
and famous by finishing her screenplay (populated by Very Attractive People) if she has to work so much? Join Alice as
she contemplates life, love, fame and thrift store fashion.
