polaris
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Post by polaris on Jun 19, 2011 17:16:01 GMT -5
Looking on IMDB recently I noticed that play Stacey and Luca in the film were like 15 and 23 when that film came out and my first thought was that's nearly the same age difference of Stacey and Wes!
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 21, 2011 18:31:49 GMT -5
I meant to say this earlier but I noticed Sam Thomas was dancing with a girl named Amanda Martin (at the Spring Dance). I wonder if that was Ann's way of including herself in a BSC book? I remember one other book, I think it was "Claudia and the Great Search," where we're told that the Perkinses get all kinds of children's books because of their Editor friend (who could have really been Ann or someone at Scholastic) but otherwise I can't think of any other "close" AMM mentions.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jun 21, 2011 20:56:09 GMT -5
Ohhh good catch! That's pretty cute about the perkins!
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 21, 2011 21:59:03 GMT -5
I doubt Amanda Martin was meant to be AMM, since this book was ghostwritten. It would be cute if she stuck herself in, though.
Didn't Paula Danziger's Matthew Martin series have an Amanda? I wonder if she named that Martin family after Ann.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 22, 2011 21:10:09 GMT -5
It's a mystery. I just posted Dawn's convo with Mrs. Ballmer (Dawn can't decide what her mother's name is) in the Dawn's Big Move thread. In this book. Stacey tells us that "Mr. Spier and Mrs. Schafer made us chicken salad sandwiches for lunch." Another instance of Dawn eating meat. Also, I think it was in this one that Dawn says something about clam chowder.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Jun 23, 2011 23:39:32 GMT -5
^ how awkward that it would be written "mr spier and mrs schafer." after specifying that sharon was changing her name to his, that sentence just draws so much attention to their different last names.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 24, 2011 10:58:32 GMT -5
^It really does. It also (maybe) draws more attention to the (possible) fact that Dawn wishes her parents were still married. I always did wonder if she and Jeff (even Mr. Schafer) ever felt "odd" living in their former family of 4 home (without Sharon)? They must have. Sharon might have felt like the three of them, yes even Jack, were moving on without her, leaving her out. Too bad that didn't bring them all closer together. ITA with whoever said in another thread I think that Stacey's parents had the right idea by both moving into new places.
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 20, 2011 23:43:32 GMT -5
I enjoy this book. Some of the scenes in this book, I felt like, I was reading one of those romance novels.
My first crush was my camp counselor's boyfriend. I thought, he was so cute. 2nd crush, I was in kindergarten. This male teacher will take me to other room. For kids who has learning disability problems (like me) He'll tell my teacher, he was ready to pick me up, go to other classroom for like an hour. (Don't worried, their was like two other teachers & students.) 3rd crush, was male swim teacher (that taught me how swim.) 4th crush was my gym teacher in 5th grade. 5th crush was this guy who work at Arbors drug store (Now called CVS) 6th crush was in high school. I saw some male teachers who were hunk. (But, they weren't my teachers.) But, I didn't wrote a poem or tell them, I had crush on them. I'm like Mary Anne. A shy person.
Elvira the goat is so cute. The sub-plot had some funny scenes.
The car scene remind this one tv movie. (It was 1996.) The movie was called My Daughter's Honor. (I'm not sure, it's the right tv movie. Could be a different tv movie) Anyways, I remember the one scene in the car. The teacher was doing more to do student than driving her home or wherever she had go. (If, you know what scene in the movie I was talking about. You get the idea.) Just too weird say it on here.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Oct 21, 2011 23:20:03 GMT -5
I crushed on people around my age and cartoons if anyone. In my teens, I moved on to people a generation ahead of me.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 5, 2011 15:11:04 GMT -5
This book was pretty good, if only for the snark comments and Stacey acting like a 13-year-old foo'.
It reminded me of when I was in high-school and I was a student-teacher for a Grade 5 class. Some of the girls developed crushes on me, and would even come and visit my house, but I think it was different for me because I didn't like girls (even though they didn't know that). Even still, it makes sense that a senior high-school guy comes in and you automatically like him... same with Stacey's situation in the book.
Interesting how Erica Blumberg also had a crush on Wes. Would have liked to seen this develop more or be talked about in a different Stacey book or something.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Jul 17, 2012 2:30:26 GMT -5
Imagine a Rachel and Mr. Shu scenario like in Glee, with a Susie Pepper on the side (perhaps Mallory?) hahah
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Post by wenonah4th on Jul 21, 2012 5:51:34 GMT -5
Children very frequently develop crushes on inaccessible people when they're in that middle-school age. I remember being on both ends of those crushes! When I was in 7th grade, i had a brief crush on someone who helped with our youth group at church; when I was a college student, the younger brother of a friend developed a crush on me. (I had the sense to act like I didn't notice. Ten years later that kid's an upstanding sailor.)
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 21, 2012 11:19:32 GMT -5
^That's interesting that you have the experience of being on both ends, Wenonah. I'm glad to hear about the "sailor." Was he named Johnny? (MA's sailor in her dream from "MA and the Music Box Secret") Your sharing that reminds me that I was on the receiving end myself. Even though it's only been 7 years, a world has happened in that time, and I never even gave it second thought in the other thread in "Baby-sitters' Remember." I was a summer camp counselor during the summer of 2005. I by far was the oldest counselor there. My group was the youngest 6-8 year olds I believe. A few times a week HS kids would volunteer. My group got matched with 14 year old "John," (Not his name but our "favorite," male BSC one). John was to enter 9th grade that Fall. From the beginning it was semi obvious he had a crush on me. A first I tried to play it off because I honestly had never been on that end...remember I was mainly a preschool teacher so when a 2-4 year old boy "loves" you that's not quite the same as one who is 14. I was just friendly to him all summer, never said anything but also made certain to never encourage. I did mention it to a fellow counselor and possibly one of the camp directors both of whom just said to keep being friendly to John, nothing more. Looking back, I probably could have handled things better. I'm not even sure John realized how "old" I was because as I have said a lot of folks assume I am MUCH younger. In this case, I could have conceivably been his very young mother. Scary but true. Memories.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Jul 22, 2012 3:19:31 GMT -5
haha I remember liking a 21 year old counsellor when I was 14....and totally told him to email me after we all got signatures from everyone on a book or something, I can't remember on what. Turns out he was related to one of my best friends, and going out with the daughter of a family friend
But the sad truth is , I'm nearly 30 and still fall for inaccessible people, and it's not always about physical, it's about being inspired, though sometimes I do believe it's rooted in lonliness or setting myself up for failure cause of low self esteem.
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Oct 20, 2012 1:24:10 GMT -5
I was rereading this yesterday and I was kinda getting vibes from Wes like he would have returned her feelings if she'd been older. Why did he even sit her down and talk to her? Wouldn't there have been a better way to handle it?
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