# 23 Dawn on the Coast

I love this book. It's one of my favorites in the series. I love how close Dawn is to Jeff and her dad in this one. I agree sotypical. The cover is one of the best. It makes Dawn and Jeff look like they're having a blast. It always makes me want to go to the beach.

I love this book as well! Everytime I read it i want to go to California! I loved Clover and Daffodil in this book, they were so cute, and thet seem like they would be so much fun to sit for.

I'm still reading this one, but I love when Dawn is flying to CA, the things that happen on the plane are pretty funny with the flight attendant ignoring her and her seatmate helping her out, it's cute. Dawn says in this book she isn't a strict vegetarian but that she orders the veg meal on the plane cause they're always better. So weird. She gets stuck with a regular meal, but doesn't eat the meat.

So I'm almost done with this one and there are a LOT of food descriptions in here that some of you might like (those of you that like reading about the food!) I didn't particularly care for them as I wouldn't have eaten any of it (Dawn sure does eat a lot of fish in this book!), usually I like Dawn books for the food descriptions - but only when she has decided that she'll actually be vegetarian for that book, lol.

Tons of CA stereotyping in this book. On Dawn's list of pros and cons about CA and CT, "healthy food" is listed under CA. WTF? They don't have healthy food available anywhere in CT?! Another thing I noticed in this book is how once again, Dawn doesn't miss her friends back home at ALL! Geesh, I wonder if she even likes those girls sometimes.

Oh, her dad's house sounds gorgeous!! It's very spacious and sounds really bright and clean (with skylights in "almost every room!"). Man sucks to go from that to a friggin' farmhouse. I suppose a farmhouse would have a certain charm to it, but her CA house sounds SO nice! What does her dad do for a job, anyway? Anyone know?

I don't think that Carol was introduced in this book. But I really liked the part about Disneyland, but Dawn makes it sound like you can only be a little kid to go there. I've probably been there about the same numbers of time as Dawn has, but each time I go there, it is still exciting and really cool. And she acts like only tourists do all the stuff that she did in this book, but I know for a fact that practically anyone would like to do the stuff she did.

There is way too much stereotyping. A big portion of the population in CA isn't vegetarian. They are regular people who happen to live in this state, but I hate that in these books they are written like they are better than everybody else just because they live in CA. The same thing for New York. These are some of the only flaws I can see with these books.

I know what you mean, Dawn makes CA sound so awesome! I also liked reading about the We Love Kids Club in this book. It was a nice change of pace from Kristy and her Looks. And as you can see from my icon, I also love the cover. This is how I always picture Dawn. She looks so cute!

Agree, swinginmonkey, on both points. I'm 24 and have only been to Disneyland twice but this book always makes me really want to go back. It also bugged me how the Schafers only get to go on about 7 things and make a big deal of having to chose between Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion - they obviously didn't get in to the park early enough and didn't know how to "do things" to get on everything
Also agree about the stereotyping but try to overlook it since it is so common in almost all books, especially kids series. It does bug me sometimes more than others, though, and Dawn's CA friends are one example that always irritates me.