Alice the Brave

A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she''s been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders . . . but her fear is worse. It''s going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she''s afraid of deep water!

It''s a hot August, and everyone ...