u4me
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Post by u4me on Jun 2, 2011 21:06:45 GMT -5
It always drove me nuts that the Perkins girls were so unbelieveably amazing. Maybe it was because they were real people Ann knew and loved, so she made them more special. Who knows.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 2, 2011 22:43:25 GMT -5
^Every Perkins has a real life counterpart. I bet Ann made them all super amazing so they would enjoy reading about themselves I remember in one book it was said Mrs. Perkins had "a beautiful singing voice."
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 2, 2011 23:09:59 GMT -5
^I remember that. Mrs. P was going to choir practice. Didn't it say the choir had performed all over? Lol, BooBoo to "Ann made them all super amazing so they would enjoy reading about themselves." Maybe she did and I hope they did. I do think that's at least partly why Stoneybrook had so many "Elizabeths and Johns." Although Mr. Perkins was rarely seen or heard from in the books.
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Post by candykane on Jun 3, 2011 8:38:10 GMT -5
The only time I remember Mr. Perkins having a significant appearance or any dialogue in the books is in Hello, Mallory, when Claudia and Mal show up for the sitting job. Didn't he give them both pink balloons in honor of Laura?
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 3, 2011 13:10:22 GMT -5
^I think he did! Good memory, Candykane. That reminds me that he called Claudia in "Snowbound" to tell her she'd need to spend the night with the girls.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 11, 2011 17:07:53 GMT -5
For some reason, it really bugs me that Mallory's pants are so baggy, almost as if she's hiding a pee-pee or something.
Also, Jessi looks like she should be 25, not 11.
I LOVE Dawn on this cover. Probably one of the cutest pictures of her.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Oct 12, 2011 20:12:24 GMT -5
she's 11....
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 13, 2011 0:44:50 GMT -5
This was good book to read. Mallory should tell her parents, in the beginning that she's has assignment to do. She needs some privacy for like few hours. My niece is 10. She can help alot. It bug me, that Byron, couldn't clean up is spill milk. It was like he was 2 years old. Look fun, doing Pike Day. The crafts, scavenger hunt, & the puppets. Remind this one scavenger hunt, I did at my old church. (Locked in.) But, this was different scavenger hunt. You read the clues. Drive around to different places. Like go to ER room. One person be the patient. Others be the doctors nurses, etc. They took picture of it. Go to a sport store. Put on hockey uniform. take a picture. It was fun. I didn't get to see the pictures. I wanted see them. I don't know, why they didn't make a copy of the pictures. We could probably paid for the copies of the pictures. If, it was too expensive to make extras. To this day. I always wonder, what the pictures turn out. My avi is the front cover of Mallory On Strike. I love the background on it. The fall color of the leaves. Them raking. I like to change avi of different season or my favorite cover or character.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Oct 13, 2011 4:41:01 GMT -5
I don't know that telling her parents she needed privacy would have done much good. I grew up with three younger siblings in a tiny house, and privacy wasn't possible. I had to share a room with my sister, and my brothers were basically allowed to come in and out as they pleased (our second tv was in my room). If other people wanted to be where I was, I just had to live with it!
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Oct 14, 2011 1:03:42 GMT -5
This is one of the few covers where Mallory's red hair looks so nice on her! If only someone can tell us why she preferred blonde...who wants to look like Dawn? haha
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Post by anzuhana on Oct 14, 2011 9:07:10 GMT -5
^ In Calfornia Girls, she wanted blond hair because she "saw" only blondes in Calfornia.
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Post by candykane on Oct 27, 2011 18:02:01 GMT -5
I don't know that telling her parents she needed privacy would have done much good. I grew up with three younger siblings in a tiny house, and privacy wasn't possible. I had to share a room with my sister, and my brothers were basically allowed to come in and out as they pleased (our second tv was in my room). If other people wanted to be where I was, I just had to live with it! I grew up in a tiny house, too, and there was zero privacy. I only had one sister, but we had to share a room, since there were only two bedrooms in our house. Plus we only had one bathroom, so you could never get away with spending too long in there. Mallory could have gone to the library to work on her story. Even if I'm alone in the house, sometimes I need to go somewhere totally different if I'm working on a project, like genealogy research. It works better for me to take my laptop and head to the library so I'm not distracted by the phone, housework that needs doing, etc.
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Jan 22, 2012 3:17:33 GMT -5
The Perkins girls probably did learn things because they did not have a Mallory to be the family slave. Mallory's treatment in this book kinda reminds me of the Duggar family where the older kids are raising the younger ones. Mr and Mrs Pike pretty much ignoring their kids and need two babysitters all the time also gives me a Duggar vibe.
Also I am just as irritated by how incapable the kids are while rereading this book now as I was 4 years ago. I think part of it may be that I am now a mom myself. My 22 year month who is not even 2 is more capable of getting himself a snack than Claire is. He can't make a sandwich but he knows where all the crackers and fruit snacks are and knows those are in the cupboard he can reach. So he will go and get a box of snacks out and bring it to me and tell me "ee-ee" (eat) or "foo" (food) so I will give him a snack. He doesn't know how to open the package for most things but I actually caught him one day sitting on the floor of the kitchen sticking his hands into a cereal box and eating cheerios.
I felt bad that Mallory was afraid to ask for BSC time off and that Kristy was trying to make her feel guilty. Really Kristy? Mallory needed to finish that story for school and all you can think about is clients thinking you are unreliable.
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celaeno
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Post by celaeno on Jan 23, 2012 0:17:20 GMT -5
I finished #46 Mary Anne Misses Logan which was about Authors Day at SMS, and then I went right into #47 Mallory on Strike...which is about Young Authors Day at SMS! Gee, you can tell they were really stretching for ideas already in the series, and this is just over a third of the way into the regular books.
They talked about Young Authors Day all through this book, and I was surprised at the end when it ended up being on a Saturday and they said that the auditorium was packed with students. I can't imagine any middle school choosing to hold an assembly like this on a Saturday, because I would think only a handful of students would willingly come!
It sounded like they had too many categories too. Isn't there probably about 150 students in the sixth grade? I'm guessing only a small fraction would actually write stories, and only a small fraction of those would have written sci-fi, so why did they even need to have a sci-fi category?
I thought it was really cute how Mallory loved the way the author Pamme Reed dressed, and was like "I decided then and there that I would try to look and dress just like Pamme Reed." I love Mallory's dorky moments.
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Post by shannon86 on Jan 23, 2012 9:34:15 GMT -5
THis was an awesome book! I love the cover and Dawn and Nicky are so cute on it.
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