Poor Alice struggles under her strict rules, longing for the freedom that Poppy has. So when she's out of her house, Alice is ogled by older guys, and when she's home, she's nagged and told how she doesn't measure up by her grandma. According to her, Filipino teenagers worked hard, never talked back, and didn't draw on their hands with pens or want to be actresses, like Alice did. grew up in the Philippines and was fond of telling anyone who would listen how different things were over there. Plus her parents died when she was very young and she lives with her "superparanoid" (1.43) grandmother, Mrs. This doesn't make life easy for Alice, to say the least. In the meantime, other boys definitely notice Alice:īoys had been hassling her ever since she'd hit ten, gotten curves, and started looking a lot older than she was. Her best friend is Poppy, with whom she fights bitterly throughout the book, and she's also close with Zach, although their friendship might be turning into something more… if only he'll notice that she has a crush on him. Alice makes up one-third of the Zach, Poppy, Alice trio, and in addition to being a middle school student, she is a loyal friend and a budding actress.
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