{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts."}, "title": "The Agony of Alice", "covers": [15170039, 12623521, 2787997, 10993000], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "THE SUMMER between fifth and sixth grades, something happens to your mind."}, "first_publish_date": "August 1, 1997", "key": "/works/OL13392W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL22786A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL15266951A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Teacher-student relationships", "Fiction", "Juvenile fiction", "Children's fiction", "Girls, fiction", "Emotions, fiction", "Teacher-student relationships, fiction"], "latest_revision": 20, "revision": 20, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T16:50:50.274651"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-14T11:46:34.349065"}}