Should I Wait Until I’m About Thirteen?

Question:

i love the alice books and read all of the ones that have been published but i am only 10 years old. ill be 11 in three months but i no im kinda young for alice. im not going to stop reading them because i love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!! do u think i should wait until im about thirteen or fourteen before i read alice in charge next year? thanks so much for your advice i love the alice series and your an amazing author!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phyllis replied:

Well, you are rather young to be reading the most recent Alice books, but if you had no trouble with “Dangerously Alice” and “Intensely Alice,” you can get through “Alice in Charge.”   You will probably get much more out of the later Alice books if you read them again when you’re older.  It’s not that you won’t understand the story now, but by then you will have more of the feelings and emotions that Alice portrays in these books, and the problems she faces will be more real to you.