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Post by secondhandshoes on May 19, 2007 16:59:05 GMT -5
This was my first BSC/Little Sister book ever. ah memories!
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Post by aln1982 on May 19, 2007 19:24:16 GMT -5
I haven't read this book for a while but remember thinking Pamela was a real pain - but isn't she always. I somehow had missed this thread and was glad to read it tonight and see I have things in common with so many people As a kid, I was always getting teased for going to bed early (still do). Unfortunately, my sleeping is really messed up now so I am up at weird times but when I could sleep regular hours, I always went to bed early. I also was content to go in my room and play by myself (still content to be alone and taught myself to read early. I always felt really alone about these things but now feel better. I'll have to reread this book soon. Don't remember anything about it.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 3, 2007 17:22:28 GMT -5
Just read this one and really liked it. Made me think of the one and only slumber party I ever went to – a birthday party for a friend when I was 7. I wasn’t big on spending the night so wasn’t going to stay all night but was having so much fun that I decided to. I had some fun that night but was so tired and miserable the next day that I never spent the night again. It just wasn’t for me. Maybe that is why it was so fun for me to read about the great time Karen and friends had at their slumber party. It sounded like “gigundo” fun and let me live vicariously ;D Pamela was such a jerk. I can’t stand her! What was the book where she first comes to school and one of the kids thinks she’s really cool and tries to hang around her all the time? I thought it was this one, but I was wrong. Maybe one from the Kids in Ms Colman’s Class is the one I’m thinking of??? I can relate to Karen’s feelings with her fight with Nancy, who bugged me at the beginning when she threw the fit about not being “invited” with an invitation. I had a friend who was so annoying like this with having to be specifically “invited” or pouting around and being a brat about it. Very irritating…. Anyway, I really like this one and am glad that it’s one of the LS books I own now ;D
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Sept 23, 2007 19:43:46 GMT -5
I seriously wanted to slap Pamela after reading this book. She was such a little pampered princess. "I have to sleep in a bed! I can't eat pizza!" I mean, WTF? Karen should've kicked her out or something lol. I couldn't stand Nancy in this book either, did she seriously think that Karen wouldn't invite her after inviting everyone in the class? I can kind of understand her point about not getting an invitation I guess (that was a big deal when I was seven years old) but she took it too far with getting Karen in trouble. Nancy sure had some guts doing that. I'm sorry, but even at eight years old when I was reading this, I couldn't understand why Karen and her friends thought that The Wizard of Oz was a scary movie (btw, I liked the Surrender Dorothy sweatshirt Karen wore at the party . Reading that part was almost as funny as when the BSC got all excited about To Kill a Mockingbird being on TV at their sleepover during the book Stacey's Ex-Best Friend lol (To Kill a Mockingbird was a very good movie but I didn't think it was excitement worthy). The end of Karen's Sleepover was great, because this is when Karen, Hannie and Nancy sign the pact that marks them as The Three Musketeers. I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
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Post by greer on Sept 23, 2007 20:56:01 GMT -5
^yep aln, it's a kids in miss colman's class book. #10, Holiday Time.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 1, 2007 23:34:45 GMT -5
^ Can't wait to read that one now over Christmas ;D I love that book and wish Sarah would have been featured more in LS books. Just reread and this one is so cute. I like it how Nancy finally comes to the sleepover and tells Pamela she brought an extra sleeping bag since she doesn't have one. Go Nancy ;D I like how Karen, Hannie and Nancy sign the pact at the end, too.
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Post by msstock87 on Oct 3, 2007 14:35:33 GMT -5
I always liked when Nancy brought the extra sleeping bag too. I thought that was funny. The signing of the pact at the end was really cute too.
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Post by macca on Oct 3, 2007 18:07:27 GMT -5
^ I love the way they were going to do the blood sisters thing and then it was like "EW, NO! Prick my own finger! Gross!" Typical BSC squeamishness!
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 20, 2007 9:15:25 GMT -5
Just read about this event from Sara Ford's perspective in Holiday Time (Kids in Ms. Colman's Class), which was really interesting. I was glad to see I wasn't imagining the book where Sara was impressed by Pamela. My impression of Pamela didn't change in that book - what a brat. The sleepover also sounded pretty fun from Sara's point of view, too. I really like seeing the parallels and stories told from different perspectives in the Kids series.
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Post by morbiddadestiny on Jan 5, 2008 15:55:30 GMT -5
^ Can't wait to read that one now over Christmas ;D I love that book and wish Sarah would have been featured more in LS books. Just reread and this one is so cute. I like it how Nancy finally comes to the sleepover and tells Pamela she brought an extra sleeping bag since she doesn't have one. Go Nancy ;D I like how Karen, Hannie and Nancy sign the pact at the end, too. ^haha, these days that "blood sisters" thing should not be even suggested to kids. what was ann thinking? was this before HIV became a big problem? seriously, as an impressionable kid i read this and wanted to become "blood sisters" with my best friend. it never happened, but still. i can see how it would be a cool idea to a little kid.
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 5, 2008 17:12:29 GMT -5
^ The "blood" thing always creeped me out in the movie Tom Sawyer when I was a kid. I guess I just can't imagine purposely cutting myself - even for fellow Muskateers. ;D
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Post by fluffycakes on Jan 5, 2008 19:44:55 GMT -5
It's funny you guys bring that up. Has anyone seen the movie "My Girl"? There's a scene where Vada and Thomas J. do the blood brothers thing, but apparently the scene gets cut whenever it airs on t.v. so as not to promote doing that sort of thing. I never wanted to do a blood brothers - even without thinking of HIV/AIDS, the thought of that really grosses me out.
This has got to be one of my favourite BSCLS books in the series. I loved having sleep-overs as a kid, so I can see why I liked it. I hated Nancy in it though, but I guess her reaction was pretty typical of a 7-year-old. I didn't like Pamela very much either, but for some reason I found Nancy's behaviour more obnoxious.
Did this book involve anyone sleeping in a tent in the backyard? Or am I making that up?
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 5, 2008 20:41:26 GMT -5
^ I don't remember the tent but I haven't read it for a while. I think there was a storm, though, so I doubt it was this one. Nancy bothered me, too, until she came and kept getting digs in on Pamela. ;D
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Post by morbiddadestiny on Jan 6, 2008 0:52:28 GMT -5
^ The "blood" thing always creeped me out in the movie Tom Sawyer when I was a kid. I guess I just can't imagine purposely cutting myself - even for fellow Muskateers. ;D oh man, JTT was sooo dreamy in that movie. at least i thought so as a kid and would watch it over and over just for that reason. although i think today i'd be more of a huck girl.
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Post by mckay on Jan 6, 2008 22:50:26 GMT -5
It's funny you guys bring that up. Has anyone seen the movie "My Girl"? There's a scene where Vada and Thomas J. do the blood brothers thing, but apparently the scene gets cut whenever it airs on t.v. so as not to promote doing that sort of thing. It airs in its entirety on HBO, anyway. I was just watching it last weekend, on some other channel. I still can't make it through without crying. I missed the first half, though, so I don't know if that scene was cut.
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