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Post by greer on Jun 21, 2008 14:45:51 GMT -5
Why green, red, and blue? I don't get it.
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courtky10
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 21, 2008 14:48:45 GMT -5
She probably means because they're usually the most popular colors. It seemed weird that the sixth and seventh graders picked orange and white instead.
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Post by greer on Jun 22, 2008 2:52:51 GMT -5
Still doesn't make sense.
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Post by Penny Lane on Dec 24, 2008 13:16:44 GMT -5
So I just read this, and it was weird. I usually like Claudia books, but this just didn't make any sense. As previously mentioned, why would the school pull her back a year to make up stuff, then skip her forward when her grades improve? She should probably stay back.
The seventh graders kind of bore me.
I was highly amused when Josh said he could sneak into PG-13 movies, because they rarely check him.
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Post by starrynight on Feb 24, 2009 11:12:38 GMT -5
I just read this one for the first time, and I didn't totally hate it; maybe Lerangis's writing style is growing on me of something. I agree with everyone who thinks mark is a jerk, but I actually like the way he's written. I knew boys like him in middle school! I was also hoping that I'd get the whole Claudia and Josh relationship once I read the beginnings of it, but I don't. I just don't get a romantic vibe from them at all.
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 20, 2009 20:43:56 GMT -5
The plot of the book was okay, although I could never understand why they would send Claudia back to the 7th grade when she had already completed it.
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Post by otempora541 on Apr 23, 2009 13:30:51 GMT -5
Classic case of BSC in high school thing. My high school(s) did the class color thing, and the whole choosing between guys thing was classic high school drama.
I liked some moments in the book: the 7th grade girls telling Claudia that Josh likes her, the three legged race where they fall all over each other and Claudia's like, 'KISS HIM!', making out... behind the bleachers and everyone interupting in joy when the grade wins. I think that Lerangis's big fault though: he knows how to write moments, but when he writes books it fails miserably.
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Post by lilafowler on May 16, 2009 18:40:51 GMT -5
I am about half a page into the ebook and I already want to slap Peter Lerangis:
Shut it, Pete, like you are any less lame.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 28, 2009 18:38:08 GMT -5
I thought the Claudia/Mark/Josh love triangle was so much more tolerable than the Stacey/Robert/Ethan one from a few books back. I like that Mark was never portrayed as a good guy, so therefore we were never expected to feel sorry for Claudia. (I felt like we were supposed to pity Stacey when her doting boyfriend turned crappy.) Claudia liked a hot jerk who was always a jerk and eventually the hotness wasn't enough to keep her around. A lesson all middle school girls should learn. ;D
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Post by starlett2010 on Oct 29, 2009 2:04:46 GMT -5
I like that Mark was never portrayed as a good guy, so therefore we were never expected to feel sorry for Claudia. Claudia liked a hot jerk who was always a jerk and eventually the hotness wasn't enough to keep her around. A lesson all middle school girls should learn. ;D LOL, very true!!! Starrynight, I also knew guys like Mark in middle school. In fact, I "dated" a guy like Mark in ms. I had a Mark/Josh situation going on. LOL one guy was a short, nerdy guy who was my friend and the other guy was a tall, stoic popular guy. Like Claudia, I picked the cute guy, brokeup with him, dated the other guy and realized we were better off as friends and that I was way too young to be dating. The popular guy caused me too much trouble. :s
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 31, 2010 1:38:17 GMT -5
i don't know if this happened to anyone else, but i ordered this book online and when it arrived, half the book was missing. instead there were 21 pages from the middle of another book. it literally jumps from this book to another book in midsentence. i'm so mad. i was looking forward to finally reading this :]
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 6, 2010 22:12:04 GMT -5
^ Is it another BSC book? Can you tell which one?
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Aug 12, 2010 1:33:36 GMT -5
^ i spent a while on google, trying to find a phrase from the book that would identify it. and i finally figured out it was "the only way out" by deborah kent. i have to go find that book now. the 20 or so pages i read sounded really good too!
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 12, 2010 2:07:46 GMT -5
^ Maybe it was meant to be, then... you might have the BSC to thank for introducing you to a new book!
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Post by dawnnjackiefan on Dec 25, 2010 5:46:02 GMT -5
I just read this one for the first time, and I didn't totally hate it; maybe Lerangis's writing style is growing on me of something. I agree with everyone who thinks mark is a jerk, but I actually like the way he's written. I knew boys like him in middle school! I was also hoping that I'd get the whole Claudia and Josh relationship once I read the beginnings of it, but I don't. I just don't get a romantic vibe from them at all. I agree about Mark. I actually found him more relatable. All the guys in my junior high were just like him. From what I've read on Josh, there really aren't any real junior high guys who are as cool as Josh was. But then again, all the boys in my junior high were pretty much jerks anywayBoys are really immature at that age though. The only one I read with Mark was Claudia, Queen of the Seventh Grade, where he comes off not so bad. Plus, he repeated a grade, so if Claudia is so not into seventh graders, it could have worked out. Also, I had to repeat a grade (11th, the worst one ever to repeat), so I know what it's like to lose your friends because you don't see them anymore. And little things do matter, like you connect with people who have been left back also and are in your "new" grade. That's why I wonder why that wasn't mentioned more in the Claudia/Mark books.
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