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Motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right, and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkin's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers that it is what people are inside that counts.
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There's a lot about growing up that's confusing to Alice McKinley. Her mother died when she was four - how can her father and her nineteen-year-old brother, Lester, teach her what she needs to know? Even buying a pair of jeans can turn into a major embarrassment with Lester in charge. If only she had a role model, like the beautiful sixth-grade teacher Miss Cole. But instead Alice gets assigned to plain, pear-shaped Mrs. Plotkin's class. Is Alice doomed to a life of one embarrassment after another?
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