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Post by Honeybee on Mar 9, 2014 21:19:36 GMT -5
I bought this at the book nook, today. But, I can't remember, if I already own the book or not. I know, I read it like 2 years ago, at the library. Not sure, if I bought it or not. I need to write down the names of BSC & LS books, I have at home.
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mallorypike
Sitting For The Papadakis's
If I were thirteen instead of eleven, life would be a picnic...
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Post by mallorypike on Mar 13, 2014 18:30:00 GMT -5
This is one of my favorite books. I have to admit that I like the more "realistic" mysteries (i.e., this book, Stacey and the Stolen Hearts). When I was younger, I always wanted to find a secret diary. I still do! Mal tutoring Buddy is one of my favorite subplots. I think Mallory would have been a great teacher when she is older. You know, I can imagine the BSC starting a tutoring business. I can see Kristy getting all excited over tutoring little kids. I loved the seance scene. I was cracking up the whole time. I loved Kristy's "Madame Kristy" costume. However, I have a hard time picturing her as "Madame Kristy" as I can't see her dressing like that. From the description in the book, though, it sounds pretty funny. Plus, Kristy pretending to be Sophie's ghost and Mallory actually believing it totally got me LOLing.
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Post by Honeybee on Mar 13, 2014 21:12:49 GMT -5
I always wanted to find a real diary. But, we don't lived in a very old house. One year, when I was grade school. We're looking at old Victorian house, that was back in 1800's. It was really cool home, but my parents couldn't afford it. If, we did bought that house. I wonder, if I could found old diary, old letters or anything that was back in 1800's.
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Post by thejunkbucket on Oct 2, 2015 15:37:03 GMT -5
Poor Mallory, even when someone gives her a gift she can't win. I'm reading this again now and was taken aback by the back cover of the new version. Doesn't that sound like "Dusty piece of junk, here, Mal, take it?" Not quite, that bad, perhaps, but the general idea! Actually, that blurb is not entirely correct. It was Mrs. McGill who offered it to Mallory and Claudia, since they both seemed fascinated by the trunk, but in the end Claudia decided that Mallory should have it, because Claudia's bedroom was already a 'crowded mess,' plus, Mallory lived closer, so it would be easier to transport it to Mal's house.
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Post by bscfan1997 on Oct 11, 2015 1:17:07 GMT -5
The Mystery Diary is one of my fave Mallory books and fave books in general. I love the mystery of the diary and Sophie. I love when Mallory tutored Buddy. And Mallory's journal entry in chapter 1 is funny. I also like her outfit on the cover. I wish that I'd ever find an old diary!
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 23, 2016 0:13:29 GMT -5
I reread this again. I like, how Mallory help Buddy learn to read. He was happy he read was a crow. In his reading group, at school.
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Post by Enigma on Jan 24, 2016 1:40:11 GMT -5
I reread this again. I like, how Mallory help Buddy learn to read. He was happy he read was a crow. In his reading group, at school. Mallory uses a lot of proven techniques used by professional reading clinics to improve his interest and skills; reading words in context, reading books of interest with him, giving him clues and scaffolding, etc. He goes from struggling with basic sight words like 'house' to reading and comprehending an entire set of instructions on a magic set well enough to perform the tricks, not to mention an old diary from the 1800s.
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 24, 2016 1:45:24 GMT -5
I reread this again. I like, how Mallory help Buddy learn to read. He was happy he read was a crow. In his reading group, at school. Mallory uses a lot of proven techniques used by professional reading clinics to improve his interest and skills; reading words in context, reading books of interest with him, giving him clues and scaffolding, etc. He goes from struggling with basic sight words like 'house' to reading and comprehending an entire set of instructions on a magic set well enough to perform the tricks, not to mention an old diary from the 1800s. That's an amazing. 1800's, they're hand writing was fancy. Some of the pagesin the diary, was faded. So, it was hard for Mallory and Buddy, to read it. But, they didn't give up. Until they figure out, what the words were on the paper.
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Post by wistfuldreamer86 on Aug 15, 2019 18:31:45 GMT -5
This was a fun one to read. The mystery was actually harder to figure out than some of the other mystery books earlier in the series. I actually didn't figure it out until the characters did, lol. I also liked that the kids helped Mallory solve it. Though I kept wondering why they didn't just go to the library for answers? Most libraries have information on town/county history. And there definitely should've been something there about Sophie being that she was the granddaughter of someone so rich. And there should've been something in old newspaper archives about Jared stealing the painting...or something. Oh well.
I really liked the Buddy/Mallory scenes. His reluctance to read at first seemed realistic. I think he was smart and could read, he just wasn't interested in the types of things he had to read at school. I liked that Mallory brought different reading materials to spark his interest and even had him draw/write a bit too.
Someone a few pages ago mentioned that it was cool to see Mallory and Stacey interaction which I agree with. I always like seeing the BSC members interact with someone besides their "best friend".
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Post by gertiethedino on May 18, 2020 12:53:29 GMT -5
I'm sure I will have more comments on this later, but I can't stop laughing after reading Mal's journal entry on page 2: "I feel as if I'm going to be eleven forever. My ninth year went by in a flash. My tenth year went by in a flash. But my eleventh year already seems a decade long." If she felt like that at book #29, I can't imagine what it felt like a literal 10 years later in #126!
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on May 18, 2020 16:30:54 GMT -5
I'm sure I will have more comments on this later, but I can't stop laughing after reading Mal's journal entry on page 2: "I feel as if I'm going to be eleven forever. My ninth year went by in a flash. My tenth year went by in a flash. But my eleventh year already seems a decade long." If she felt like that at book #29, I can't imagine what it felt like a literal 10 years later in #126! Ahh that’s really funny, I would have never noticed that. I remember getting this book for the first time and loving it. The cover is so pretty and now I want to do a reread of it.
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Post by gertiethedino on May 19, 2020 8:23:13 GMT -5
I don't know why I always tend to forget about this book when I'm thinking about the series overall, but I really enjoyed reading it again. It's certainly one of the better Mallory books, especially in terms of treatment from the writers.
I love how realistic most of the people and situations are - especially Mrs. Barrett's comments about being a working, single parent with three kids and the difficulty of not just spending quality time with each of them individually, but also wondering how to fit in helping Buddy with his reading on top of that. I don't think I appreciated as a kid just how true that is, and something I know I'm hearing a lot of my friends who have become makeshift teachers over the past few months.
I think Buddy and Mallory made a great pairing too, since she would already have known him pretty well from being friends with her brothers, and I could absolutely see him as being a kid who is struggling with certain aspects of school.
I'd forgotten about the seance scene until I read it again, and that's another that feels authentic - my friends and I definitely did stuff like that at sleepovers growing up.
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Post by wistfuldreamer86 on Jun 9, 2020 21:07:31 GMT -5
I'm sure I will have more comments on this later, but I can't stop laughing after reading Mal's journal entry on page 2: "I feel as if I'm going to be eleven forever. My ninth year went by in a flash. My tenth year went by in a flash. But my eleventh year already seems a decade long." If she felt like that at book #29, I can't imagine what it felt like a literal 10 years later in #126! lol, that was very tongue in cheek of the author!
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 9, 2020 23:49:57 GMT -5
I reread this again. I like, how Mallory help Buddy learn to read. He was happy he read was a crow. In his reading group, at school. I thought the Crows were the bottom group and the middle group he got into was the Robins. He also said he wanted to reach the Hawks (top reading group) before the year was over.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jun 10, 2020 17:55:57 GMT -5
It's pretty crappy that they labeled the groups like that. How is that not an invitation for bullying when you go from weakling to alpha bird? Lol. I can just hear kids being like "Haha, you're a pigeon. I'm a Bald Eagle."
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