macca
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Post by macca on Mar 14, 2006 3:58:43 GMT -5
I liked this one more than I thought I would. Judging from the back cover, it seemed to be all about Jenny not wanting to get messy playing in the Pikes' kickball team, but it was more about Jenny's jealousy over baby Andrea's modelling career. I could've done without the brief OCD-Jenny who scrubbed her hands incessantly and burst into tears if a speck of dirt got on her dress, but I enjoyed reading about Jenny's experience with the child modelling industry.
The Pike subplot involving the triplets was somewhat annoying (those immature boys aren't ready to be responsible babysitters like their eleven yr old sister) and I couldn't believe those Pike parents - forbidding Mallory to have any social life whatsoever because of her illness, but then making her their live-in nanny?! Also, how many freakin' doctors/dental appointments do those kids have?!
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Post by jen on Mar 22, 2006 1:11:52 GMT -5
I hated the Pike parents in this one! Poor Mallory!
I'm not sure if I liked Mrs Prezzioso much, either. She didn't seem very sensitive to Jenny at all.
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macca
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Post by macca on Mar 22, 2006 4:11:00 GMT -5
Mrs Prezzioso was just typical Mrs Prezzioso (never much to write home about) but those Pike Parents were simply disgraceful. No wonder Mallory had issues.
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Post by jen on Mar 23, 2006 4:22:22 GMT -5
It's a bit like "Mallory on Strike" all over again, wasn't it?
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 26, 2006 22:02:58 GMT -5
Front cover of this book -- anyone else think Jenny looks like a little person?
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jun 29, 2006 4:39:29 GMT -5
^ She ain't look like no four-year old I know.
I thought the cutest part of this book was when Jenny and co. got back from the catolouge shoot, and Jenny was going to play kickball, and she went with her dad. I 'm glad they actually mentioned him after 14 chapter.
BTW, what exactly is kickball? I didn't really get it.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 29, 2006 11:11:56 GMT -5
It's a lot like softball, except the pitcher rolls a red bouncy ball (about the size of a soccer ball) to the "batter" who kicks it. It's played on a softball diamond with generally the same rules. Except when people are running the bases, you can throw the ball at them, hit them, and get them out.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 29, 2006 16:06:06 GMT -5
Lisa, you're lucky that you don't know what kickball is because that means it obviously wasn't the only thing you played in gym class during elementary school in Australia. Don't know about other schools, but kickball was a favorite of all of my gym teachers. We played it almost every class it seemed and "boys against girls, boys against girls!" That is why I hated gym (and boys
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Jun 29, 2006 18:21:23 GMT -5
We usually called kickball "soccer baseball."
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 29, 2006 19:20:37 GMT -5
LUCKY!
We DID play it at my primary school. Did you play rounders? It's similar to that, except you kick the ball as opposed to hitting it with a bat.
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jun 30, 2006 6:33:00 GMT -5
The only game I rember playing in primary school was octopus, where you avhe to call out a colour and if you were wearing it you had to run...didn't really work very well, seeing as we had to wear navy for our uniform, but everyone seemed to be obsessed with it.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jul 17, 2006 13:00:59 GMT -5
Kickball is awesome! I loved playing it in elementary school! I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would, I really don't normally like reading about Jenny. I felt really bad for her in this book, though. Mrs P is just the type to ignore one daughter in favor of the model baby. It was nice to see Jenny come around though and decide on her own to play kickball rather than model Ooh, major points for this book when one of the triplets (Adam?) acknowledges it's stupid that Mallory babysits for them when she's just a year older than they are. I thought it was weird that the triplets were CONSTANTLY referred to "Adam and the boys" or "Adam and the others" in this book and never "Adam, Byron and Jordan." Even just calling them "the triplets" would be better. I like when they give Shannon babysitting chapters, but I wonder why she didn't get a full book when Dawn was gone? That would've been nice.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 17, 2006 17:21:27 GMT -5
^It REALLY steams my vegetables how when Dawn was in California, we were fed the drivel that was Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever, when we could have gotten a Shannon book.
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macca
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Post by macca on Jul 18, 2006 0:57:00 GMT -5
^ Ugh, ITA.
Shannon only had one book and occasional chapters in Super Specials. Wouldn't it have been better to get to know more about her than read about how the adults in California are unenlighted rude morons towards mentally ill people, children are pure, wholesome and accepting of everyone despite their differences (yeah, okay) and Dawn's dad can't stand being single for a week?
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jul 18, 2006 5:00:39 GMT -5
Yeah, but if they gave Shannon a book they would have taken away the dimensions that she has, and made her her a one layer character. At least this way she stayed untainted.
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