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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2008 7:57:01 GMT -5
i really liked the book i think the ghost writer did a good job portraying how a preteen girl like Stacey would treat her crushes i think the statement 'my cottage cheese tasted especially fresh today' really showed us how Stacey felt all i have to say is Rock on BSC!!
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Dec 11, 2008 15:16:49 GMT -5
I reread this one after my exam today. It's weird reading this book now that I'm...22! I'm a math major and several people in my program are student teaching -- there could be a Wes in my classes, y'all. Then again, the guys on my campus don't seem to be snappy enough dressers to wear a WHITE TUX to a MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCE. Anyway, I couldn't help but read the entire book thinking of Wes as some dorky guy who would live in my dorm, rather than a honey-voiced mathematician/Lothario.
It really was pretty cute how Stacey dorked out the first time she saw Wes; I had never noticed it before, but before he tells the kids they can call him Wes, she keeps calling him by his full name:
I also think it's funny how one of the outfits Peter Lerangis gives Wesley Ellenburg is the navy blazer and khakis ensemble 95% of college guys turn to when they have to dress up.
A) What is so intimidating about asking for paperwork that needs to be filled out? B) Fabulous idea when you're a student teacher -- talking nuts about administration to students. C) Shut up, Wesley Ellenburg. I might be drawing too much from a Baby-sitters Club book, but I feel like Wesley Ellenburg's behavior in this one is really speaking to me. It is saying that boys are still morons, even elderly 22-year-old ones. I mean, I know we'd have no book if Wesley Ellenburg completely ignored Stacey, but after reading this book a million times and cringing at Stacey's behavior, this is the first time I noticed what a colossal idiot Wesley Ellenburg is.
Probably!
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Post by greer on Dec 23, 2008 15:23:21 GMT -5
yeah, the statuatory rape ones.
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Post by featherearrings on Dec 30, 2008 13:57:56 GMT -5
I just read this for the first time this morning. Most. Boring. Subplot. Ever. It was seriously painful to read. I skipped over most of it. Also, why does Dawn keep losing her charges? I'm pretty sure I would never hire her as a baby-sitter. Other than that, the book was okay. Stacey reminded me of me when I was a dumb lovestruck kid. And I have a close friend named Wes who happens to be 22, so I just kept picturing him lol.
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 20, 2009 20:54:11 GMT -5
That guy was too old for Stacey and he didn't even look 22 years old. Stacey was always boy crazy, that was nothing new.
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Post by firecausesburns on Mar 29, 2009 3:47:32 GMT -5
Wes on the cover looks ridiculously like Scott on the cover of Boy-Crazy Stacey. I had a big crush on my PE teacher and softball coach when I was 14, but I'd have died rather than tell anyone about it, most of all her. (Then again, at that stage I was closeted, and she was straight.) She was about 22 or 23, I think. She was really nice to me, but I only even saw her one-on-one maybe twice. She hugged me a couple of times, as a thank-you for her Christmas present and as a congratulations when I won a softball medal, but I wasn't silly enough to interpret that as having meaning. One teacher gave me a very short car ride once. I collapsed at a softball game and could barely get to my feet, let alone walk the five minutes to the carpark, and she drove me there. Driving Stacey to Claudia's seemed kind of ridiculous, IMO.
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Post by candykane on Mar 31, 2009 13:45:00 GMT -5
I don't like this book at all. I know Stacey LUVS boys, but I guess she didn't learn her lesson after crushing on 18-year-old Scott. That poem she wrote was so awful and cringe-inducing!
I never noticed Wes looked like Scott on the cover. But I'm not surprised - lots of times I can't really tell Dawn and Stacey apart on the covers. Hodges made a lot of people look very similar.
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Post by greer on Mar 31, 2009 15:27:45 GMT -5
I'd think that Stacey would have more sense than to get a crush on a 22 year old. I mean, ok, she could have a crush, but she thought that something would actually HAPPEN about it. Um, no.
Although maybe it's not THAT far enough that something could have happened, considering all of the news stories about student-teacher relationships. :/
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Post by featherearrings on Mar 31, 2009 20:28:46 GMT -5
I wanted to smack Stacey over the head throughout the whole book.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 31, 2009 20:34:18 GMT -5
lol. The Stacey in this book is not the Stacey I know and love. I didn't think she would actually do something that embarrassing to herself!
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 31, 2009 21:19:45 GMT -5
Yeah, I know that Stacey's a little boy crazy, but in this book she went a little too far. She just gets too carried away.
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Post by rainbowgirl28 on May 25, 2009 18:25:26 GMT -5
Lots of inconsistencies in this story!
First, Mr. Z. tells the class that Wes will be teaching them as part of the master's program at Stoneybrook Community College.
Community Colleges don't even offer Bachelor's degrees, let alone Master's. Sometimes a CC will expand to start offering 4-year degrees, but then they usually drop the "Community" or "Junior" from their name.
Then, Wes says he is a senior at SC and that he is working on his BA.
Then when Wes gives Stacey a ride, there is a Stoneybrook University sticker on the windshield!
Didn't the ghostwriters go to college? Junior college?
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Post by sparklymouse on May 25, 2009 18:39:31 GMT -5
My hometown has a two year community college that is starting to expand and offer some Bachelor's degrees. I don't know what they are, but I'm sure the selection is pretty limited. It is called a university too, so the name Stoneybrook University doesn't bother me.
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Post by greer on May 25, 2009 23:41:23 GMT -5
Weird. I thought universities had to have grad programs.
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Post by supprazz on May 27, 2009 18:40:09 GMT -5
I like the way the book was so well written with the plot unfolding, though Stacey was hoping for way too much. I couldn't help but wonder whether her mom knew about Wes or not, as she knew Stacey was going to the dance and helped her buy a dress.
I remember reading this book in 1993 with Boy Krazy's That's What Love Can Do playing on the radio, perfect!!!
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