When Audrey Met Alice

Thirteen year old Audrey is a typical 21st century girl. She likes to watch movies, eat pizza, and has crushes on boys. She is also keen for a good adventure and making friends. However, Audrey is different than most girls her age in that she is the daughter of the President of the United States and lives in the White House. Restrictions of all sorts abound for Audrey, but when she discovers the diary of President Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt, she wants to follow Alice’s advice: “To Thine Own Self Be True.” What follows is a delightful story that shifts between Audrey’s ups and downs as a first daughter and Alice’s adventures and challenges as first daughter over 100 years earlier. Behrens masterfully show more illuminates how many of the girls’ experiences are similar though, despite the time gap. Readers will laugh and cringe at both Audrey and Alice’s adventures, which include crashing golf carts, hiding boys under beds, navigating multiple marriage proposals, and sneaking friends into the White House (in disguise!).

There aren’t many books out there that illuminate the contemporary experience of being a first daughter in the White House. Nor are there many stories that interweave a contemporary first daughter’s experience with an early 20th century experience of living at 1600. What a gem of a book! I recommend that readers, including middle grade, young adult, and adult readers sit down to read about the antics and challenges of first daughters Audrey Rhodes and Alice Roosevelt.

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"It was ok." Great concept, but obvious & superficial. Maybe a more naive reader than I will get a kick out of it, but it's not likely to get reread, I don't imagine, nor pushed on friends.

I do have to admit that, when I requested it, I was somehow under the impression that it was a picture-book. I think it would have been better as such. Most of the material here is filler, imo. And, again, a slightly younger audience, say 6-8 instead of 8-12, would, I believe, enjoy it more.

Audrey's mom is president. But living in the White House is no fairy tale. With all the security, Audrey is not allowed to have friends over, which makes it hard to find friends. Then Audrey finds the diary of Alice Roosevelt and things get a bit more interesting. Alice also had a hard time in the WH, even a hundred years ago. Audrey reads about all of the ways that Alice had fun as First Daughter, and she cooks the goose a little bit herself.

Girl who's mother is the President of the US and all of the problems that come with that. Friends not allowed in due to security breaches, friends who want to be friends because you are famous, end of old life. Etc. Could have been good.

To me a lot of the Alice Roosevelt stuff was not for children (which this book is supposedly written for) since it was just down right boring and full of trouble making that kids would not get into. Ahhh the horrors of driving a car as a woman or smoking on the roof of the White House. Not so much.

Even with that, I thought that it might work because we could discuss how families are too busy for us and how fame can destroy things and how you have to sometimes watch what you say and do.

But then there show more is the "gay Rights" agenda that had to be forced into there. Totally unnecessary and obviously a ploy by the author to get her point of view across. Even if Alice did make the quote about "doing what you want as long as you don't scare the horses" that is really pushing it...

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children's fiction (modern day First Daughter and historical fiction/Alice Roosevelt).