Alice, I Think (novel)

{{Short description|2000 novel by Susan Juby}}

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| name = Alice, I Think

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| image = Alice I Think cover.jpg

| caption = First edition cover

| author = Susan Juby

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| country = Canada

| language = English

| series = Alice Macleod

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| genre = Bildungsroman
Comic novel
Young adult fiction

| publisher = Thistledown Press

| release_date = 28 April 2000

| media_type = Print

| pages = 224 pp

| isbn = 1-894345-12-6

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| followed_by = Miss Smithers
Alice Macleod, Realist at Last

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Alice, I Think is the first in a trilogy of comic novels written by Susan Juby. It was first published in 2000. It is set in Smithers, British Columbia and describes the struggle of a young woman, Alice Macleod, as she matures.{{Cite web |title=Alice, I Think |url=https://susanjuby.com/books/alice-i-think/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Susan Juby |language=en-US}}

Alice, I Think was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association Best Young Adult Novel Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.susanjuby.com/aliceithink.htm |title=Author's website, January 2011 |access-date=2010-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716165437/http://www.susanjuby.com/aliceithink.htm |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}

The second and third volumes in the series are Miss Smithers and Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last. The series follows Alice as she moves from home schooling into near-mainstream high school and develops friendships and her sense of self. The series was made into a television series of the same name.

See also

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