lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 18, 2007 20:48:10 GMT -5
Kristy and Bart go as the lobsters in Kristy's Mystery Admirer.
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 18, 2007 23:10:33 GMT -5
^ Thanks. I was thinking it was Kristy and Bart after I wrote my post. I always think of Mystery Admirer of a Valentine's Day book (maybe because of a heart or something on the cover?) but it is another Halloween one, I think. I love the part about Jamie and Georgie the ghost in this one ;D
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 19, 2007 21:29:26 GMT -5
Oh, yeah thats true... it does seem Valentine-ish. But the creepy bit fits in with Halloween. Jamie is so cute, lol.
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Post by luckymojo on Jun 19, 2008 13:17:00 GMT -5
^ How so?
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courtky10
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 19, 2008 20:51:55 GMT -5
Isn't this the one where a bird comes into the Pikes' house and Vanessa loses a tooth?
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lyricalangel
Sitting For The Newtons
Logan's love-bunny
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Post by lyricalangel on Jun 19, 2008 21:01:16 GMT -5
^Yes! I love that chapter.
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Post by candykane on Aug 15, 2008 19:57:55 GMT -5
I just finished rereading this one and I had to laugh at the scene when they're in the library looking for spell books. First there's Claudia, looking confused as they first walk in. She whispers something about "where do we go?" or "what do we do first?" For crying out loud, Claudia, your mother is the head librarian! I know you said you hate the library in the previous chapter, but give me a break. You must know at least something about the place. Then they all go to the card catalogue to look up the books. The old-fashioned card catalogue with the drawers! Pure awesomeness. Mallory also mentions that they have to behave and act really-grown up because "librarians are always suspicious of kids hanging around the adult section." This made me laugh a lot. I like your advice about behaving, Mal, and I wish more kids would take it, but librarians aren't really suspicious of kids who are simply browsing books in the adult section. We're actually quite busy and have lots more things to do besides police every kid who walks in the door.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 16, 2008 18:48:04 GMT -5
^My old library had the kids' section in the basement and the adult section on first floor, so they actually might have been a little annoyed if a gaggle of young teens were hanging out in the adult section. Now that we're beyond the old paper card catalogues, I look back and think how much they sucked compared to now. Kids these days have it so easy.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 17, 2008 1:30:39 GMT -5
Ah, the good ol' days of card catalogs. I was impatient with them, but they did always look nice to me.
That's weird about Claudia being so lost, because wouldn't her mom have taken her and Janine to the library plenty of times when they were kids, and told them about how things work? It's pretty likely she preferred to hang out at home and draw or whatever while Janine voluntarily went to the library, but still. At least she finally asked a library page for help in another book.
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Post by candykane on Aug 17, 2008 11:15:26 GMT -5
I used to actually like the old-school card catalogs when I was a kid. We had them all the way through high school at my school. I graduated in 1999, so that goes to show my school was a little behind technology-wise. I don't think I'd like dealing with the card catalogs now, though, so I'm glad everything's online.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2008 16:02:11 GMT -5
I so disagreed with the Pikes' chapter being the "worst baby-sitting experience in history." Dinner got burned, a bird flew in, and a kid lost a tooth. THAT'S your worst experience? What about those horrible Feldman kids Claudia always got stuck dealing with? Or when Claudia babysat for the Arnold twins and they switched places, so Carolyn went to Marilyn's piano lesson? (I know this was in a later book, but still) Or those 14 kids they had to deal with in Book 6? Burned dinner, a bird, and a tooth isn't that bad, and yet, they're all like, "OMG, it was SO awful! I'm surprised we survived the night!!!!"
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Aug 26, 2008 16:53:32 GMT -5
I used to actually like the old-school card catalogs when I was a kid. We had them all the way through high school at my school. I graduated in 1999, so that goes to show my school was a little behind technology-wise. I don't think I'd like dealing with the card catalogs now, though, so I'm glad everything's online. I graduated in 1999, too, and we had ours right up until the end. We had computers also, and most kids used those. I kind of miss the old card catalogs, though. I always feel kind of nostalgic for those days whenever I read references to them in BSC books.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 26, 2008 18:14:49 GMT -5
Another 1999 graduate here, and I think we still had the old card catalogs until I was out. They were still in the transition stages over to computers. I remember going to the city library and the old paper cards were on a box on a table being used as scrap paper. That was a sad day, lol.
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bsclover18
Junior Sitter
God loves you!
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Post by bsclover18 on Aug 26, 2008 18:18:09 GMT -5
We still have the card catolouges in school. Our librarian is just starting to switch over.
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 5, 2008 21:27:56 GMT -5
I didn't know there were two threads for this book! Morbidda Destiny giving apples to trick-or-treaters was awesome. Karen's, David Michael's, and Andrew's costumes sounded so boring. Karen was a witch, David Michael was some warrior from a TV show, and Andrew was a moose. That's actually kind of cute, but he didn't want to wear his mask, and was just wearing a brown suit. This seemed out of character for Mary Anne: I know that Ann M likes Stephen King, but Mary Anne as a King fan? She's so jumpy just thinking of their Cokie/Grace confrontation, and she gets grossed out by simple comments from Kristy about food. Still, I can understand getting into the Halloween spirit and wanting to scare yourself for the fun of it. And Logan's reason for joining in... What the heck? He goes because a voice on the phone tells him to. I guess if it was Cokie who phoned him, maybe her voice wasn't all that threatening, but did he not consider the possibility that he might get hurt if he was alone in a cemetery at midnight on Halloween? Haha, I'm being an old grump. But seriously. Well, I guess there are no crazy people in a little town like Stoneybrook, huh? (Well, if you don't count the characters in the mysteries... )
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