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Post by aln1982 on Feb 18, 2008 16:02:30 GMT -5
^ I don't remember any but I haven't read many of those lately. I do remember several mentions in #100, though. It always seems kind of confusing to me whether or not math is one of Claud's better subjects. Some of the books make it sound like she's awful at it but others mention that she's not bad at it (Math Whiz being the one that comes to mind)
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Post by Honeybee on Nov 4, 2011 22:28:04 GMT -5
I was mad, when I read the teacher accused her of cheating. I didn't like, Mary Anne in this book either. She was like, well, Claudia, if you cheated. We'll still have your back. Mary Anne accused Claudia. When Claudia told her BSC friends she didn't cheated it. that was good, Jainie stood up for Claudia.
I like math, when I was younger. But after my car accident. I forgot lot of things Math came hard subjects during 4th grade through high school.
I'm like Claudia. Who cares how much chocolate chip will go in the cookie dough. I used to eat raw cookie dough. Now, their telling us, not to eat cause of raw eggs. (I do eat cookie dough ice-cream. Since it in the freezer.) I do, miss eating cookie dough without ice-cream.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Jun 18, 2018 12:15:46 GMT -5
I found this book in a lending library at the park! I was really excited because I haven't read it in ages, but also because I learned the phrase lending library from the BSC.
As much as I loved certain parts, on the whole this book was weird, and the two plots felt weird together. Claudia's plot was too passive and the triplets's plot was too easy. Claudia had tons of options available to her (have her parents talk to the teacher, ask for a retest right away, escalate to the principal) and she did none of them. I am definitely conflict-avoidant so I understand her desire to want to forget it and keep everything on the inside. But she didn't do anything, literally almost the entire book. She waited for a sympathetic person to make the first move and get the snowball started. If Janine hadn't talked to the principal, Claudia would have gotten stuck with the F. I also think the parents should have done way more. They shouldn't have trusted that Claudia could handle it on her own. But I really liked the last chapter when they got the cake and started taking pictures. It was a nice scene and it was great to see them actually doing something fun with their kids.
Then the triplets - their plot was solved WAY too easily. These are ten-year-old boys who are grumpy. Their big sister says "let's re-enact it" and they actually go along with it, instead of rolling their eyes like I would have done. How is it possible that they could recreate the way the ball went? Or even remember all the details in the first place? And then they do it YET AGAIN when the rest of the family gets home? And then Mrs. Pike makes a big declaration about how they are officially ungrounded and they take the triplets out to celebrate, when there should have been a discussion about telling the truth, owning your mistakes, and working together to find a solution. It was immediately apparent that it was a genuine freak accident, so why did they act guilty for weeks instead just talking about it? One time when I was first learning to drive, I screwed up and hit a relative's car. I was scared to tell my dad, even though it was an accident, but I called him right away and he thanked me for being honest. That way we were able to figure out a solution together. But the Pike parents didn't seem to value any of that. They even reinstated their allowances! It was way too easy and I didn't like it at all.
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Post by wistfuldreamer86 on Mar 17, 2020 18:49:27 GMT -5
^ The best part of the book was definitely the Janine/Claudia stuff. I wasn't too keen on the plotline but I liked that aspect of the book so much that it was overall an enjoyable read for me. I didn't like the girls breaking into Shawna's locker or the teacher accusing her of cheating. The girl cheating off of Claudia also felt weird to me. I did like seeing Claudia studying more and caring more about getting an F than she wanted others to think. That was an interesting development and added some depth to her character.
Sometimes the Pike's idea of parenting doesn't jive with me and this book was a good instance of that.
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Elsie13
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Post by Elsie13 on Sept 14, 2020 21:22:05 GMT -5
I really, really liked Claudia and Janine in this one, I'm super close with my older sister so I guess I related to them a lot and how great Janine was in this book and how willing she was to stand by Claudia and believed she was telling the truth. I was a little surprised a student like Shawna was silly enough to copy the test EXACTLY, but I guess she figured no one would believe it was her anyway. I understood Claudia being a little bit passive in this one, I think she cares more about her grades than she cares to let on and that it is a source of some embarrassment for her and it made sense to me that she didn't want to make too big a deal about it, especially with regard to her parents. The locker breaking in stuff was funny, especially how bad they all felt about it, but I guess ta 13 that is a pretty big deal. It's nice to see them rebel a little bit and since the breaking in ended up not being the solution to the problem the book didn't encourage that sort of behaviour or anything, which I'm not surprised about. The Pike subplot wasn't the best, but was okay. I'm surprised they got into so much trouble for taking the blame all together instead of just one of them getting into trouble for it, especially when it turned out that there was no one culprit anyway. It just was a bit of a nothing plot to me, a bit of mountain out of molehill or something.
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