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Post by aln1982 on Jan 16, 2008 17:43:42 GMT -5
^ That would have been cool! ;D I'm surprised I didn't consider it, especially since they're both pictured and there is the obvious that both of them are Asian.
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Post by arnell24 on Jun 9, 2008 17:52:55 GMT -5
a couple years ago when i was in the 6th grade...this is the first bsc book i read......because in elementry i used to read the little sister series...anyways i look on the front cover and i though emily was claudia little sitter..
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courtky10
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 9, 2008 18:50:26 GMT -5
a couple years ago when i was in the 6th grade...this is the first bsc book i read......because in elementry i used to read the little sister series...anyways i look on the front cover and i though emily was claudia little sitter.. Whenever I first picked up this book, I thought Ann M Martin was going to make Claudia be adopted, and then Emily would be her little sister.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Jun 9, 2008 21:10:16 GMT -5
Whenever I first picked up this book, I thought Ann M Martin was going to make Claudia be adopted, and then Emily would be her little sister. Hahaha, that would've actually been more interesting than the actual book which I thought was lame ;D.
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Post by lionessblack on Jun 9, 2008 22:07:20 GMT -5
I remember really looking forward to reading this book, and then I got read it, and even as a kid, I was kind of annoyed with Claudia and thought she should have just asked. I thought it was weird that by the age of 13, Claud hadn't been told about the day she was born. I knew the story of my birth by then. It just seems like one of those things that you hear about, over and over again when you're growing up.
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courtky10
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 9, 2008 22:12:19 GMT -5
I know. I didn't like this book either. It was really boring.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Jun 12, 2008 13:09:28 GMT -5
I remember really looking forward to reading this book, and then I got read it, and even as a kid, I was kind of annoyed with Claudia and thought she should have just asked. I thought it was weird that by the age of 13, Claud hadn't been told about the day she was born. I knew the story of my birth by then. It just seems like one of those things that you hear about, over and over again when you're growing up. I know! And it took her until her portrait book to find out about it and she asks, of all people, Janine to recount it!
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 30, 2008 14:25:14 GMT -5
I think it would have been interesting if one of the girls actually had been adopted. It was one family situation that they didn't really explore. I don't count Emily because she was too young to know what was going on. Her birth mother could have been Nannie, Elizabeth, Kristy, or Shannon the dog and it would have been the same to her.
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Post by supprazz on Sept 17, 2008 8:50:58 GMT -5
I thought it was stupid how Claudia concluded that Mary Ho was her birth mother, considering she would have been 8 years old when she was born...brilliant Claudia.
I also found it creepy how she's calling random people to ask about their kids names, I would be creeped out if someone called like that and just hang up. It's funny though, I live in a different country and I looked up Ferguson (without the i) one day and found that they also lived on Rosedale Rd.!
Reading about her and emily michelle was very sweet, it made me want to be a tutor too
Her poodle outfit in the beginning sounded dorky but cute at the same time.
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Post by candykane on Sept 17, 2008 17:12:53 GMT -5
I used to think Claudia had a lot of nerve calling up those strangers! I used to hate making phone calls to people I didn't know, or calling businesses. So I could relate when Claudia was all nervous about calling the Love Bundles agency. Thankfully, making phone calls like that doesn't bother me anymore.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Sept 22, 2008 12:07:31 GMT -5
I still hate making phone calls, and I always got nervous right along with Claudia when she was calling in this book!
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 22, 2008 18:37:44 GMT -5
I don't like talking on the phone much in general. I've never liked answering the phone, so caller id was such a great invention in my eyes. I agree that Claudia was gutsy for making those calls, but did the club have to pay for part of that phone bill? Claudia's no dummy with that arrangement.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Sept 23, 2008 15:46:09 GMT -5
I hate making phone calls too; I'm more of an internet person. I used to always hate talking on the phone because if someone other than the person you wanted to talk to answered the phone and you asked to speak to that person, they would say yes who is this? and then when you said who you were, they'd be like, "WHO?" really loudly. It was so annoying. If I have to talk on the phone, it has to be cell phone to cell phone because at least then I know the person I want to talk to will answer right away and it makes it just a bit easier .
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nothingtolose18
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Sept 23, 2008 17:52:39 GMT -5
^ I HATE phones as well. I just don't like the fact of how, sometimes, if the wrong person answers, then you get all flustered when you ask if it's them, and it is, or worse, you begin to talk to them like it's your friend, but it's not! lol. A couple of my friends have siblings who sound a lot like them, and I've begun to talk to them, thinking it was them, when it was really their sister, or someone. lol.
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Post by firecausesburns on Mar 29, 2009 2:52:44 GMT -5
I can't help but think that these days, Claudia wouldn't have to call the families to confirm that the kids born in the same week as her actually exist - five seconds on Facebook would have done it. (Nobody called Reso Ho on Facebook, by the way.) I definitely know how she felt about the baby photos, my sister's a year older than I am and we have far more baby photos of her than of me. I'm the image of my father, though, so I never worried about being adopted. One of my favourite moments of the book was Emily answering the phone with "Heyyo! ", that was adorable. Emily seems like a really sweet little kid.
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