Pre-Owned From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between (Hardcover) 0822572710 9780822572718

Upon moving from Boston to the suburbs, eleven-year-old tomboy Alice meets Zen, a very strange neighbor who is determined to help her become popular when they both begin middle school, although he himself is a loner. Alice likes playing soccer and working on her go-kart with her dad. Her bedroom is decorated with a baseball theme. But when she moves to the suburbs, she learns from the boy down the street that she has no hope of fitting in at her new middle school unless she starts acting more like a girl. Zen seems kind of weird himself--how many boys read fashion magazines and dream of someday owning a spa? Alice learns that fitting in and being herself are two very different things--until she tries to fit in with people who like her for who she really is.