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Post by jen on Nov 18, 2006 1:11:17 GMT -5
I remember Janine saying that the junk food was her vice and Claudia didn't know what that meant... Don't remember what book it was in, though. The one where Claudia is angsting about her and Janine don't seem to be friends.
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Post by inge on Nov 18, 2006 15:05:21 GMT -5
I think it was Claudia and the phantom phone calls, the first Claudia one. Loved Janine in this one her hiding candy was never mentioned again... she must've also had "good genes"
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Post by sotypical42483 on Nov 20, 2006 12:30:27 GMT -5
^I'm reading Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls right now... kind of. I've been working on it for like a month and a half.
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Post by hitzpink on Nov 22, 2006 20:32:33 GMT -5
I'll have to re-read Phantom Phone Calls sometime soon because I don't remember this stuff about Janine at all! I am the same way. I'll say the same thing about Claudia's "laziness" and spelling mistakes a hundred times. I can't get over it because it's just so....ARGH.
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Post by supernatural babe on Nov 24, 2006 10:41:53 GMT -5
Lol! It really is a mystery isnt it?
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Post by baseballchica03 on Jan 22, 2007 8:31:05 GMT -5
Claudia's misspellings often seemed to me like typos. Who/how would make sense on a computer, but not writing it out longhand. And it certainly doesn't make sense after she's spelled it correctly once.
I just finished Jessi and the Superbrat, and one chapter that starts right after a Claudia notebook entry reads: When Claudia took an afternoon job sitting for Derek and Todd, she jumped right into the soup. Is that what the expression is, soup? Maybe I mean stew. Now Claudia's got ME making mistakes.
Hee. Bitchy Jessi.
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 22, 2007 21:53:49 GMT -5
haha, that's funny! But....what is the expression supposed to be? She jumped into the stew? WTF?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2007 0:29:03 GMT -5
I'm currently re-reading "Little Miss Stoneybrook and Dawn" and came across this little tidbit regarding Claudia and her problems... Claudia is sitting Charlotte and forgets her kidkit, Charlotte remarks that they were right in the middle of Mr. Popper's Penguins...at which point there is an interjection of thought by Dawn Actually there may have been a reason...that Claudia hadn't brought the Kid Kit. She may have forgotten it on purpose. Claudia is not a great reader. Her favorite books are Nancy Drew mysteries. But Charlotte is this smart, smart little kid who has skipped a grade and may actually be a better reader than Claudia...Imagine Claudia having to spend a lot of time reading out loudThis whole passage took me aback when I read it...Mr. Popper's Penguins is hardly on the level of say, Summer of the Swans, and the print in the book is fairly large, and we are to assume that Claudia might have trouble reading this? If so, why do each of the babysitters (with the exception of Dawn, apparently) assert that Claudia is really smart, just very lazy. If she is having trouble reading at the level of an 8-year-old, I'd say her problems go beyond laziness...
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Post by baseballchica03 on Jan 23, 2007 2:14:21 GMT -5
haha, that's funny! But....what is the expression supposed to be? She jumped into the stew? WTF? I'm not sure. I googled for it and got this disturbing story, though.
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Post by ktag on Jan 23, 2007 3:05:57 GMT -5
This whole passage took me aback when I read it...Mr. Popper's Penguins is hardly on the level of say, Summer of the Swans, and the print in the book is fairly large, and we are to assume that Claudia might have trouble reading this? If so, why do each of the babysitters (with the exception of Dawn, apparently) assert that Claudia is really smart, just very lazy. If she is having trouble reading at the level of an 8-year-old, I'd say her problems go beyond laziness... Claudia should never have made it to eighth grade. I bet she had problems with "penguin" every. single. time.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 23, 2007 13:11:54 GMT -5
WOW! That part about Charlotte and Claudia is really disturbing. God how sad for Claud, even her friends recognize what a total moron she is.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 23, 2007 17:40:06 GMT -5
I think the expression is indeed "jump into the stew". I think I've only heard it once or twice in my life.
Isn't Claudia investing a lot of time in the appearance of her Kid Kit, like re-decorating it every month or something? Plus she always has a bunch of art supplies in it. Charlotte's a creative kid, she could get distracted by the other stuff that's in there. It seems so lazy that she would leave the whole kit behind for fear a kid would want to read.
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Post by jen on Jan 23, 2007 18:05:48 GMT -5
I think that was just Dawn being b*tchy
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 23, 2007 20:39:07 GMT -5
That bit about Charlotte being a better reader than Claudia has always bugged me. She is a THIRD GRADER!!! How utterly ridiculous that a freaking 3rd grader is a better reader than Claudia. (She is in 3rd grade, right? Not 4th? Regardless...she's still eight years old!)
But also, if she can't read a children's book like Mr. Popper's Penguins, then why am I supposed to believe that she's secretly devouring Nancy Drew books every night? Plus, if she doesn't want to read to the kids, why doesn't she just not put books in her kidkit? What's the point in having the kidkit if you're going to put stuff in there that you don't want to use and so you just end up leaving the whole thing at home? Grrr, stupid Claudia.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2007 21:31:59 GMT -5
That bit about Charlotte being a better reader than Claudia has always bugged me. She is a THIRD GRADER!!! How utterly ridiculous that a freaking 3rd grader is a better reader than Claudia. (She is in 3rd grade, right? Not 4th? Regardless...she's still eight years old!) But also, if she can't read a children's book like Mr. Popper's Penguins, then why am I supposed to believe that she's secretly devouring Nancy Drew books every night? Plus, if she doesn't want to read to the kids, why doesn't she just not put books in her kidkit? What's the point in having the kidkit if you're going to put stuff in there that you don't want to use and so you just end up leaving the whole thing at home? Grrr, stupid Claudia. My second grade cousin reads at a 6th grade level, so it's definitely possible. Nancy Drew isn't exactly challengeing. Long, but not the hardest out there.
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