Filmed in Vancouver and Langley, B.C., this series was produced by Slanted Wheel Entertainment and Omni Film Productions in association with CTV and The Comedy Network.
Television rights for the Alice books were sold in 2005, whereupon CTV produced a 13-part half-hour television series starring Vancouver actor Carly McKillip in the title role. "Alice is who I might have been if I hadn't been so intent on fitting in at all costs," Juby has said. Her mother has been sent to jail for overly zealous environmental activism and her boyfriend has moved to Scotland. "This kind of makes up for the fact that I failed miserably in the Miss Smithers beauty contest," Juby said.Īlice MacLeod, Realist at Last (Harpercollins, 2005) occurs during Alice's summer preceding Grade 12 during which she writes a humourous screenplay entitled 'Of Moose and Men' and contemplates losing her virginity. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005. This second installment received the Sheila A. It was followed by Miss Smithers (Harpercollins, 2004) in which the would-be fashion designer competes in a local beauty pageant-as did Juby herself.
The debut volume called Alice I Think (Thistledown, 2002) won the Books In Canada First Novel Award. Other characters include her overly smart younger brother, her father's bandmates-including the local taxi driver and her father's gay best friend who runs the sporting goods store-and Linda, the 16-year-old town psychopath who has made Alice's life a living hell since first grade.
Raised by hippie parents, Alice is mostly anxious about learning how to conform. Inspired by her high school experiences in Smithers, Juby's trilogy about formerly home-schooled, 15-year-old Alice MacLeod of Smithers vaulted her into the literary and television limelight. Born in Ponoka, Alberta in 1969, Susan Juby moved at age six with her parents to Smithers, where she was mainly raised, along with a brief stint in Salmon Arm.
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