Dear Reader: In Stacey and the Bad Girls, Stacey and her friends get into big trouble when they go to a concert. I never went to a concert when I was Stacey’s age. Instead, I went to my first concert...
Dawn has two holes pierced in each ear. (Mary Anne and I will never get our ears pierced.) The
Charlotte and the Pikes stared after Sabrina as Mrs. Bouvier whisked her away.Do you know what that was? Claudia whispered to me. A pageant-head, that’s what. A poor kid who gets roped into any beauty...
BSC
And what did my mother think the Babysitters Club was, I wondered. A game?
All this BSC pressure was getting to me. I was forgetting how to be a good sitter. Or maybe I had never been one to begin with. Maybe that's why the club was falling apart. Maybe I needed to back off...
Adam,' I say, 'had good times and he had bad times.' I pause here and glance at Nana, see that she is crying silently, the way I cried at the duck pond in the park. I was going to say something more a...
I love Mary Anne dearly, but she was no help. She still thinks you score touchdowns in baseball.)
Pictures. Charlie and Sam were arguing at the top of their lungs. Nannie was chasing after Emily Michelle with a change of clothes. David Michael came in and pretended to faint from the smell. Mom bus...
About Hawaii. Mary Anne had been there on a school trip in July, along with almost all of my other BSC (Baby-sitters Club) friends. Sorry about the noise, Mary Anne, I shouted into the phone as Emily...
You see, they hadn’t said a single nice thing to me since I had gotten the makeover,
When I was older, I could move to some place (like Australia or Kentucky) where the boys act more like human beings.
What I didn’t figure was that I’d be eating dinner with the Stepsister from the Black Lagoon.
We are going to meet Megan Rinehart tomorrow. It’s worth all this work. When
The two-year-olds were standing over a pile of dirty forks and spoons, laughing hysterically.They're okay, Claudia said.No thanks to you, Mary Anne commented under her breath.If you're so concerned, w...
Take it easy, Kelea, said Thrash, grinning at me. Kelea? I repeated. A legendary Hawaiian princess who made friends with the water god. She was a radical surfer, he said. Oh, I replied, blushing. Well...
Say things you’d like to hear if you were in the audience. Make the audience feel good. Flatter them. Flatter them. Just use good sense. Claudia? Yeah? I think maybe I was born without good sense.
No doubt about it, Myriah really was good. Her talent was true talent, not just some little act thrown together for the pageant. And there was Karen, looking awfully pretty. Kristy was nervously brush...
Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years away. For now, I just watn things all safe and familiar. My life may not be per...
Josh’s arm was in a cast, and his face was covered with bruises. Mr. Freeman had a large bandage on his forehead, and Mrs. Freeman was on crutches. They looked as if the world had defeated them.