Alice-By-Accident (An Avon Camelot Book) - Hardcover

Banks, Lynne Reid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380978652 ISBN 13: 9780380978656

Publisher: Avon Books, 2000

Synopsis

Grappling with writing her life story for a class assignment because she feels her life isn't worth reading about since all her pets have died and some issues are too private to share, ten-year-old Alice learns that writing is the key to a happier existence, in a bittersweet novel.

About this title

Review:

Praise for The Indian in the Cupboard

‘An assured piece of story-telling, well able to stand comparison with older classics.”
Times Educational Supplement

“Enthralling and hair-raising reading.” TLS

“The Key to the Indian is a swiftly-moving, tightly-plotted, exciting, funny tale, which will keep the reader firmly hooked and frantically turning the pages.” Carousel

Praise for The Secret of the Indian

“There have been many famous stories in which children’s toys come alive: this book is in the same great tradition.” School Library Association

About the Author:

Lynne Reid Banks was born in London in 1929. She was an actress in the early 1950s and later became one of the first two women TV News reporters in Britain. She is a best-selling author for both children and adults, and has written over thirty books, including The L-Shaped Room.

Lynne Reid Banks has three grown-up sons and lives in Dorset and London with her sculptor husband, Chaim Stephenson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0380978652
• ISBN 13: 9780380978656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 140