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Post by booklover85 on Jul 28, 2017 21:56:12 GMT -5
When I was younger, I always had assumed that Mary Anne was the youngest of the club (with her birthday being in September). But recently, I adjusted the timeline in my head, and figured out that Mary Anne is the oldest of the the group, having turned thirteen sometime in the middle of Kristy's Great Idea. Mary Anne would have to have skipped a grade if she was eleven and started seventh grade.
I think Mary Anne being the oldest would be great in a ironic sort of way given how Richard dictated on how she dresses and wears her hair, while stacey and Claud, despite being a year younger than her got to dress what they wanted.
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Post by cme550 on Aug 4, 2017 21:17:21 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Mary Anne said she was turning thirteen in Logan Likes Mary Anne
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Post by mallorypike on Aug 4, 2017 22:22:51 GMT -5
Yeah, MA turned 13 in Logan Likes MA right after she started 8th grade. Then she was frozen at that age...
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Post by booklover85 on Aug 5, 2017 0:15:19 GMT -5
I wonder did Mary Anne skip a grade since she's the youngest kid in her class?
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Post by mallorypike on Aug 5, 2017 0:23:10 GMT -5
I think she did? It is odd that she's the youngest. I think she's technically supposed to be in 7th grade, not 8th.
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Post by booklover85 on Aug 5, 2017 10:01:05 GMT -5
I think she did? It is odd that she's the youngest. I think she's technically supposed to be in 7th grade, not 8th. It was a missed opportunity to have one of the sitters still in seventh grade. That way the club wouldn't have completely eighth and sixth graders. With Mary Anne in seventh grade, we could have gotten a glimpse of seventh grade life in SMS. |
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Post by mallorypike on Aug 5, 2017 13:43:53 GMT -5
^ yeah, that's a good point. The only time we got to see the 7th grade (other than the first 6 books) life was when Claudia was temporarily moved back to the 7th grade.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 8, 2017 13:05:22 GMT -5
She wouldn't have to had skipped a grade. My brother has a mid-October birthday, and my mom had the choice of him being the youngest or oldest in his grade by when she started him in kindergarten. She chose to start him later whereas more parents push for school asap. Richard seems like that type.
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Post by mallorypike on Aug 8, 2017 16:57:47 GMT -5
She wouldn't have to had skipped a grade. My brother has a mid-October birthday, and my mom had the choice of him being the youngest or oldest in his grade by when she started him in kindergarten. She chose to start him later whereas more parents push for school asap. Richard seems like that type. That's cool. One of my sisters was a Karen and she skipped kindergarten and headed to first grade. She's going into 8th grade, 12 going on 13, so I assumed the same thing happened to MA even though it wasn't mentioned. |
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 8, 2017 18:17:49 GMT -5
My birthday's in late October and I turned six before a lot of my kinder classmates. I also didn't go to pre-k. My mom couldn't let go  |
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Post by mallorypike on Aug 8, 2017 18:23:03 GMT -5
My birthday's in late October and I turned six before a lot of my kinder classmates. I also didn't go to pre-k. My mom couldn't let go haha, my mom was pretty thrilled when all us kids went to preschool so she would have a quiet and empty house for 4 hours  |
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Post by LadyDru on Aug 30, 2017 20:03:30 GMT -5
The books led me to believe Mary Anne was the youngest of all the 8th graders in the BSC with the latest birthday, that is until Abby came.
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Post by cnj on Apr 17, 2021 4:00:11 GMT -5
Mary Anne Likes Logan clearly states that she turned thirteen in eighth grade.
So, yes, until Abby came along, Mary Anne was indeed the youngest of the senior BSC.
I have a niece whose birthday is in late September and she started kindergarten almost a month before her fifth birthday.
So, it is not any unheard of conundrum for Mary Anne to turn thirteen after they start eighth grade.
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