Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Jun 18, 2009 21:53:31 GMT -5
Word. It sounds like something one of their charges would do. I've never read Jessi's Wish, so I don't really care about Danielle. This book was a huge bore to me. I did like the Stacey stuff though. I wanted Jessi to tell her she couldn't take over her job so that Stacey would be stuck sitting. Yeah, but why was Stacey like that only in the book before the book where she gets kicked out? I would have liked it if they showed a little of it in the previous book (Kristy & Mr. Mom). I dunno. That behavior seemed to just pop out of the blue to me. And Jessi assuming that a wedding was going to take place is on the same level as Claudia assuming that she was adopted.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 18, 2009 22:59:04 GMT -5
Well, Claudia had photographic evidence (or lack thereof). Jessi didn't think "a" wedding was going to take place, she thought it was going to be her aunt's wedding. From just hearing snippets of conversation. It was a pretty big assumption.
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starlett2010
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Post by starlett2010 on Jun 20, 2009 2:54:12 GMT -5
^I think Jessi caught Stoneybrook wedding fever. You know, how all the weddings in Stoneybrook are, like, OMG HUGE deals? She probably just heard what she wanted to hear. She is 11, after all!
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Jun 28, 2009 21:28:14 GMT -5
Well, Claudia had photographic evidence (or lack thereof). Jessi didn't think "a" wedding was going to take place, she thought it was going to be her aunt's wedding. From just hearing snippets of conversation. It was a pretty big assumption. Oops. Yeah, that's what I meant. I agree that she was probably just hearing what she wanted to hear but it was still an eye-roller to me.
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alula
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Post by alula on Jun 29, 2009 20:46:40 GMT -5
Well, I do think it's a tiny bit odd that Aunt Cecelia said "WE'RE going to have a lovely wedding," for a wedding where she's in charge of the guest book and she's talking to the best man. It just seems like a conveniently awkward phrasing (as opposed to, say, "It's going to be a lovely wedding"--then again, they seem to be running the whole thing (they talk about the catering and flowers and such), which is a very weird and contrived set up in and of itself, IMO.) But it was really dumb of them to think their parents would be like "LOL, wedding today!" at the last minute.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jun 30, 2009 22:02:42 GMT -5
^ Don't forget, though, that this is a world where people say, "LOL, adopting a baby sister for you tomorrow!"
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 28, 2010 22:41:22 GMT -5
I really liked the weather references in this book -- the fact that it was February (winter) and there was no snow.
I also like the picture of the bay window area on the cover. Sometimes, on the BSC covers, the homes look so inviting. Makes me want to read on the bay window and stare out the window...
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 16, 2011 15:06:59 GMT -5
Okay so after reading this book, I stared at my shower wondering.....how would that work? I mean I could swim down and unplug the drain right? I do have a step stool to get into it? Oh man - these books are making me question my adulthood!
This one was another snoozer - in fact I fell asleep while reading it!
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 16, 2011 18:12:15 GMT -5
^Was the car in the street or just in the driveway? I think Jessi told us she first saw Danielle at the end of the cul-de-sac as she (D) was coming back up the driveway. It sounded like Danielle actually drove in the street! I was glad the Isaacs (and Police apparently) were so friendly. I would have liked to read what happened when the Robertses came home. Also, I get that Jessi felt responsible for Vanessa and therefore wanted to go with her to the hospital. I just found it odd that Becca was apparently fine with that, although she probably was too worried about how much trouble she'd be in and Vanessa to even care. Definitely another boring book all told. I admit to not being a Danielle fan even in this one.
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 16, 2011 18:18:42 GMT -5
^ The car was on the street.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 16, 2011 18:36:04 GMT -5
^It was, huh? I can picture Danielle's street as a dead end "U" and when caught Danielle was near the round part of the U. Obviously, if nothing else, she had at least gone that far. I wonder just how long she had been "driving?" That was a semi-Dawn moment in terms of a sitter "abandoning" a charge and then something happens.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 16, 2011 20:19:12 GMT -5
I really can't believe that all of those girls weren't grounded forever! My mom would have kicked my behind all over that town!
I believe that she says she saw the car turn a corner and then pull into the driveway...how did she not hear the car start??? Total Dawn moment zoar!!!
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 16, 2011 22:03:55 GMT -5
^I am checking this out now. It starts on the bottom of Page 102-105. Well before that, Greg and Jessi had been playing checkers in his room (upstairs) while the girls were supposedly playing "Pictionary" "in the den." "Den" to me always="downstairs" but maybe not. Anyway, Danielle announces, "We've finished playing Pictionary. We're gonna play 'Let's Go on a Car Trip' now." Danielle explains that to play the above you "pack a suitcase, plan a trip, and make a picnic lunch." Jessi says that's fine and that was that. "Not too long after that, (after J and Greg had eaten lunch, again in G's room--G was getting over a cold)---I heard Danielle say from the hallway, "Let's go out to the garage now." ^ That's the gruesome tale. IIRC, at least Dawn just sent Buddy out to play in his side yard. She never allowed him to go into the garage alone. A few pages later, Mrs. Roberts calls Jessi to apologize. I take it, the Issacs (it was Issacs not Isaacs), car was payed for by Danielle's family? The whole thing is
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 18, 2011 15:19:29 GMT -5
So they alluded about Stacey's BSC issues in this book... that's at least something. It reminds me of Claudia and Mean Janine when they get the call from the Pikes at the end of Chapter 15 needing sitters to go to Sea City, and foreshadows Stace and Mary Anne getting the job.
I don't know why I like this book. I think it's, as I mentioned before, the references to the weather, winter and snow. I know that sounds lame but it's true. That's what sticks in my mind the most.
I also find some of the plots that Scholastic uses to teach the readers a lesson, through use of the clients, is interesting. Does this even make sense? Some of them were good: Shea having dyslexia and some kids could probably relate to him; Lou going through foster care and what that might be like for a kid. In a way, I see these plots as lessons for future sitters, the readers (us) and this is kind of a recycled Danielle plot. What are they trying to teach us? Kids who had cancer might come back more lively and do crazy, outlandish things like steal cards and make pool baths?
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Post by greer on Dec 19, 2011 0:37:45 GMT -5
Apparently kids had requested a Danielle update? whatever, I hated books like Jessi's Wish that were all serious and where the BSC did good deeds. Bring on the boy drama and catfights!
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