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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 11, 2008 23:31:04 GMT -5
Please discuss this book here.
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Post by annieb on Dec 14, 2008 14:58:46 GMT -5
Well, from what I've read, Karen ends up being Pamela's secret valentine. Boo and bullfrogs! I think Pamela, Jannie and Leslie were in the middle of a fight.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 26, 2009 2:05:45 GMT -5
No, it was just Pamela and Jannie.
I liked this book quite a bit. I thought the secret Valentine stuff was fun. I was trying to remember if we ever did that type of thing in elementary school, but I don't think we did. It would have been awesome to go to school every day and find little secret gifts someone left you. Karen: "I was so full of Valentine secrets, I felt as if I would burst." Haha.
Something I didn't understand...David Michael likes Hannie, and she says boys are icky and she only wanted to be the valentine of her parents and friends. Isn't she married to Scott Hsu? Did I miss something...a divorce? And Scott was even IN this book.
The kids' Icebreakers show was cute. I love how Karen wanted to be the rich girl but was cast as the evil girl. Best line of the book: "You may not believe this, but I was good at acting evil."
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Post by greer on Jan 26, 2009 7:59:27 GMT -5
Ok, time for a new sig quote. Thanks, booboo:)
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 26, 2009 12:58:55 GMT -5
;D
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Post by msstock87 on Jan 30, 2009 22:55:08 GMT -5
I thought this book was really cute. I thought the whole secret Valentine thing was a really cute idea. I never even thought about the whole Timmy Hsu thing in this book though! That didn't hit me until now.
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Post by scrounge on Feb 2, 2009 3:45:40 GMT -5
Karen was the kind of kid who would keep bringing up being pretend married to Ricky, though. (I like how they always had to say pretend lest I suddenly think they were really married.) She was a pretty obsessive kid in a lot of ways, like insisting that Mrs. Porter was a witch for over two years (she was five in Kristy's Great Idea, right?) and making everyone play Let's All Come In long after the novelty wore off for everyone else. Hannie and Scott probably enjoyed pretending to be married for a week or two, then kinda forgot about it and moved on to other games.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 2, 2009 4:17:31 GMT -5
In Karen's Ghost, Hannie dresses up as a bride and then at the end says she thinks she'll dress as one every Halloween for as long as she and Scott are married. Who wants to bet the following year she was something different? ;D
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 4, 2009 21:54:07 GMT -5
This was one of my favorite Valentine books. Lol at Pamela and Jannie's fight. I thought that the gifts that Pamela gave Karen were sweet though.
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Post by anzuhana on Jun 22, 2010 9:11:13 GMT -5
I liked the book. The secret valentine sounded fun and I think I would've liked do a Secret Valentine back when I was at school. I would've liked thinking about what presents to give someone and about what presents I might receive. It sucked that Nancy didn't have a secret valentine.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Apr 2, 2012 22:16:44 GMT -5
I also agree that this was a good Valentine's Day book. It's right up there for me alongside Karen's In Love. Poor Nancy for being the odd one out. Next time Ms. Colman will remember to double-check the names The IceBreakers storyline for their show made me laugh. It's ridiculous and random; definitely something that little kids would put on. I also liked how Maria Kilbourne was in this book as she's not in too many Little Sister books, seeing as she does live next door and is around Karen's age.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 9, 2013 16:35:34 GMT -5
^I also felt badly for Nancy for being left out. I understand that it was a Big House month and that the Icebreakers was a neighborhood thing. I also thought since Karen tells us every few minutes how she Hannie AND Nancy do everything together, Nancy should have at least been asked. I just had the thought of I wonder who Nancy plays with when Karen is at her dad's? Does she (I hope) still play with Bobby and Alicia, Willie and Kathryn, and the newer neighbors with 4 or 5 kids--Bartons? We get to read about Karen separately quite often and even Hannie sometimes thanks to the BSC and also in the KIMCC class book (Halloween Parade) she narrated but what about Nancy? I do wish and agree with many of you that "Karen's Baby," when Danny Dawes is born had been much more about the Dawes family. This is un-related but in reading about Hannie and Scott I had the thought for the first time of Karen and Ricky. I know they are in the same group at times at school but do they ever do anything outside of school? I would have enjoyed seeing them be friends instead of just always being told they are "pretend" married. I also felt awful for David Michael and yes Karen did put Hannie on the spot but she meant well. Other than in one of the very early BSC books where DM says he hates Margo because she is a girl and not even in his class, I don't think the two are ever mentioned together again. This is probably me (once again) wishing we had gotten to read some of the BSC siblings and charges stories, so that all the characters might come more together.
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Post by supprazz on Sept 11, 2013 0:54:42 GMT -5
If there was an odd number in the class, there shouldn't have been a secret valentine to begin with, unless someone was to get hootie a gift haha
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Sept 11, 2013 21:54:15 GMT -5
If there was an odd number in the class, there shouldn't have been a secret valentine to begin with, unless someone was to get hootie a gift haha Karen said that there was only 18 kids in her class.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 11, 2013 22:02:13 GMT -5
^There are 18 KIMCC. 12 girls and 6 boys. Lol what's scary is I remembered 16 of the names without looking and knew there was one boy (Hank) missing I just was blanking on his name. Sara was the girl I had forgotten. 1. Addie 2. Audrey 3. Bobby 4. Chris 5. Hank 6. Hannie 7. Ian 8. Jannie 9. Karen 10. Leslie 11. Nancy 12. Natalie 13. Omar 14. Pamela 15. Ricky 16. Sara 17. Tammy 18. Terri
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