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Post by aln1982 on Jan 13, 2007 16:46:28 GMT -5
Yeah, Stacey's advanced math class was a joke. But I remember her reading The Canterbury Tales in another book, and my English class in eleventh grade had trouble with it. We could have just been dumb, though. I noticed that too about having them do harder than normal stuff for literature and social studies. Math I didn't pay much attention to in the books, though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2007 11:05:38 GMT -5
Moved it to the right spot! Thanks starrynight, and thanks for the welcome! :-)
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Post by starrynight on Sept 18, 2007 11:42:51 GMT -5
^ I think there's a thread in the "Meetin Adjourned" section for buying/selling/trading. Welcome, by the way!
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Sept 28, 2007 22:32:49 GMT -5
I loved this book and I totally wanted to go to Riverbend after reading it ;D. However when I look back on it, the whole place is just too good to be true, I mean calling teachers by your first names, baking muffins, etc. etc. But that's the BSC for you. Does anyone know which book first introduces the whole "Spaz Girl" plotline?
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Post by wanderingfrog on Sept 28, 2007 22:36:02 GMT -5
It's introduced in #122, Kristy in Charge. When SMS is doing that students-as-teachers thing, Mallory is teaching an eighth-grade English class (why didn't the teachers think it might be a bad idea for a sixth-grader to teach a class of eighth-graders? Mallory sure figured it out right away), and she's nervous and clumsy, and people start calling her Spaz Girl.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 28, 2007 23:15:30 GMT -5
Is Riverbend real or did you just want it to be, sweetvalleygirl? ;D It didn't sound like my kind of school at all but I think Mallory liked it. I wonder if she liked it once the "newness" wore off, though, since there weren't many books after this one. Agree about the teachers being not too bright that they didn't realize a sixth grader teaching eighth graders might not work well. Actually, the whole switch situation sounded like kind of a bad idea to me, though I know what they were trying to accomplish with it (at least I think I do ;D)
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Post by liss31d on Sept 29, 2007 9:12:09 GMT -5
I think I would have loved a school like Riverbend! I'm into artsy subjects like English and Drama and PE doesn't sound bad either (I like dance and yoga)... but I wouldn't have wanted to have gone to boarding school (I feel too close to my family), and I don't think I would have been keen on an all girls school. I prefer having a mixed class to balance things out a bit.
But that must have been ok for Mal as she's so anti-male ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 29, 2007 9:45:59 GMT -5
^ The boarding school thing would have created the same problems for me. I still don't like being away from my family ;D Not sure about an all girls school. I didn't mind being around boys but wasn't very concerned with being anything more than friends with them so it might not have been a big deal if there weren't any around. I don't think I would have cared either way. I don't really remember the rest of the Pike kids reactions to Mal leaving. Did they mention it much in this book? I know it was a big part of MA in the Middle.
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Post by greer on Sept 29, 2007 16:15:18 GMT -5
well, once mallory leaves, the ROOM WARS begin.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 29, 2007 16:21:52 GMT -5
^ Now I kind of remember that. This is on my reread list soon and though I don't remember liking the subplot, I do like reading about the "new" Mallory.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Sept 29, 2007 22:44:23 GMT -5
Is Riverbend real or did you just want it to be, sweetvalleygirl? ;D Lol, I just wanted it to be real ;D. These books actually made school look like the best place on Earth.
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Post by liss31d on Oct 1, 2007 7:35:00 GMT -5
I always felt sorry for Mallory and Vanessa that everyone wanted them to move out of their room, especially since it's the room they've slept in all of their lives... maybe that's just me, but my bedroom feels very personal to me, with all my stuff on the walls and my things, etc... Even though it was fair in the end, it must be weird for Mallory when she comes back and she's sharing with 3 of her sisters and all of her stuff has been moved around.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 1, 2007 9:13:47 GMT -5
^ Totally agree with you on all the above, though I never gave it much thought. The Pike kid I felt most for was Vanessa, too, since she seemed closest with Mallory.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Oct 2, 2007 18:10:17 GMT -5
I just got this (and MA In the Middle) from ebay so I'm excited to read it (never have). I suppose I should read In the Middle first though Regarding the math thing discussed on the previous pages, was Stacey in an advanced class? I don't really remember that, but when I was in 8th grade I was allegedly advanced in math (I have no clue who decided this. I hated math!) so they put me in algebra, so I took all my math classes one year early and didn't have to take it senior year (which was pretty awesome), so the idea of super smart Stacey in 8th grade just figuring out basic algebra is pretty WTF for me.
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Post by liss31d on Oct 3, 2007 8:09:20 GMT -5
^ Yeah I never used to understand that, when I was 13, I was in the advanced maths class called Set I even though I wasn't keen on maths (there were three sets, Set 1, 2 and 3) and I remember being confused at why Stacey, the supposed maths genius had to write down on paper to solve the most simple algebraic equation.
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