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Post by greer on Mar 2, 2008 0:25:23 GMT -5
well, i'd imagine that stacey, jessi, mary anne, and maybe dawn would probably only eat one each, so hungrier people (claudia, maybe kristy) would be able to eat more. dawn and stacey sometimes also get salads instead.
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Post by inconstant heart on Mar 2, 2008 0:33:45 GMT -5
Oh, true- salads. I'd forgotten Stacey and Dawn would most likely prefer those.
Thanks! My burning curiosity has disappeared. ;D
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Post by shannon86 on Mar 2, 2008 8:14:20 GMT -5
I read that one in French and found and purchased the English version in the new cover format. I'll read that after finishing with BSC In The USA.
Me too, I feel sorry for Lou. I thought she was a boy!
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 2, 2008 16:40:00 GMT -5
inconsistentheart, glad for the agreement on Lou. I don't want to try to "diagnose" her or analyze her more ;D since I don't know enough about her to do so fairly but she reminds me of a lot of the troubled kids I've worked with (tutoring, riding lessons, etc) who had serious problems that went beyond "being sad" and needing someone to love them. That would definitely help but after reading about Lou in Best Kid Ever, I just don't see her problems as "solved". It is sad when kids have to face such problems. As for pizza, I can't see Kristy as eating a lot but I probably just want to think that because I know she's small like me and I relate her to me and I'm a very "small eater" ;D
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Post by sarish on Mar 4, 2008 9:06:19 GMT -5
I remember being excited that the book, "The Great Gilly Hopkins" was in this book because I always really liked it. I thought it was so sad when Dawn found her cradling Hannie's doll. I actually also liked seeing a foster family in the BSC books since I lived with one for a while when I was younger. I lived with one until I was 3 and then lived with my family I have now. My family now was my foster family before they adopted me (they always had the intention to adopt me though).
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 4, 2008 9:07:53 GMT -5
^ That's great you ended up with a family who adopted you. ;D I was glad to see them find some of Lou's family who wanted her and seemed like great people. I think that did do her good but unfortunately, I think she needed something more than just love....
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Post by sarish on Mar 4, 2008 22:04:15 GMT -5
^Thanks aln! I agree about Lou needing a lot more than love. Security maybe, hope, counseling...
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Post by fluffycakes on Apr 5, 2008 16:23:21 GMT -5
I read this one today for the first time. I couldn't believe the amount of Wizard of Oz references! The very first sentence mentions it. And there were a lot of mentions of how nice MA is, how she never gets angry (ha!) or would do anything to hurt anyone. Pretty much every time MA was around, someone would mention how sweet she is. I found this a little strange. This is certainly a Nola Thacker book. I can tell by all of the references to past BSC events, like when Kristy ran for president. I liked the auction plot, but thought it was silly at the same time. I thought Cokie's donation was pretty cool, I would've liked to have won that. I rolled my eyes when I read that the BSC Free Sitting coupon was apparently the most coveted item. I hope the Brewers or the Pikes bought it, then maybe they wouldn't have to pay their own children to sit for the sibs just for a trip to the grocery store or a doctor's appointment. Did anyone else notice Stacey's wicked (albeit mean) burn on Claudia at the end? Ouch, Stacey! But it was pretty funny at the same time. ;D It may sound like I wasn't all that crazy about this book, but I actually liked it quite a bit. I really felt for Lou - the poor girl. She wasn't all that terrible, in my opinion. The incident with BooBoo in the pillow case was disturbing and actually kind of made me sick, but that's it. I didn't think Lou was the worst kid ever. Her mother abandoned the family, her father just died, she's been seperated from her brother, and even her dog ran away! She clearly has her issues. As someone (sorry, but I forget who!) said earlier, most adults would have a hard time dealing with any of those circumstances. It's no surprise Lou acted out the way she did. I think the girls should have tried to be a little more understanding instead of calling her the worst kid ever. I know they never called Lou that to her face, but putting that kind of label on someone - especially a child - who is in such a fragile state only makes it worse.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2008 20:37:10 GMT -5
My husband and I want to be foster parents, and we took the classes. Children's Services said they couldn't approve us because we didn't have experience then, but we have a little now.
In my opinion, Lou acts just like any foster kid. In fact, when we told a friend of my husband's that we were planning to be foster parents, he said, "Hide your valuables."
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Post by toshemeup on Apr 20, 2010 18:56:12 GMT -5
I just finished rereading and was a little surprised by something.
It's the day that Lou is supposed to arrive and all the kids want to go to Hannie and Linny's to welcome her. Kristy says no, because the family probably wants privacy to get to know each other (something like that).
This from the girl who invited all her friends over the day Emily Michelle came to them?
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Post by candykane on Dec 3, 2010 17:08:27 GMT -5
I just finished rereading and was a little surprised by something. It's the day that Lou is supposed to arrive and all the kids want to go to Hannie and Linny's to welcome her. Kristy says no, because the family probably wants privacy to get to know each other (something like that). This from the girl who invited all her friends over the day Emily Michelle came to them? Good point. Never thought of that before. I don't like this book too much, but there are some parts I like. One is the sleepover at Kristy's house, when they leave dirty dishes in the sink to soak, but forget to actually put any water in them! Cute and typical 13-year-old thing to do. I also like that Claudia (and Stacey, too?) put a bunch of makeup on Kristy and she sneaks to the bathroom to wash it off during a pillow fight. Kristy says she figures she can say it all came off in the pillow fight if anyone notices it's gone. They'd have to be hitting each other in the face pretty hard to eliminate all that makeup! I also like the little subplot of Karen, Hannie and Nancy fixing up a clubhouse for themselves. It sounded like such a fun project and I was jealous of them when I was a kid. I wanted my own clubhouse to decorate! Too bad Lou wrecked it during her rampage. I really, really hate the part where Lou shoves Boo-Boo into a pillowcase and swings it around.
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 3, 2010 23:16:53 GMT -5
^Ditto, and also when she told Hannie in a really measured way that she hated her. I just reread this book today. It was always one that I liked to read when I was younger. I was interested in all of it--the main plot, the playhouse, the auction. Karen is kind of awesome in this book and made me laugh more than once; I loved when she said Ben Brewer sits in a chair in the attic reading old newspapers that they keep there (although Kristy said they weren't even that old) and that if they gave their playhouse a shower curtain door/window their house would be waterproof ;D Oh, and Mary Anne cracked me up when she was thinking how she shouldn't have thrown a lot of stuff away when moving to Dawn's because it might have given her something cool to donate to the auction, but then realized that all she had were one-eyed stuffed animals and magazines with pictures of Cam Geary in them--and then she was like, "well, okay, I cut out those pictures and saved them." Hilarious. Kristy's makeover at the sleepover: raspberry eyeshadow, little braids in her hair. ?? Nice to get a note from Ann at the end about that New Kids on the Block book
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Post by candykane on Dec 4, 2010 13:46:15 GMT -5
I don't remember that. I don't think my copy has that (I'm not home right now or I'd check). What does it say?
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 4, 2010 20:54:35 GMT -5
She says that she had wanted to write a foster children story for awhile, and had decided that #35 would be it and called Stacey and the New Kids on the Block. But then NKOTB got really popular and Ann and her editors got "excited" about an idea for a mystery for #35 and so decided to postpone the foster children plot.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 4, 2010 21:15:22 GMT -5
They could have just kept the foster kid story and changed the title so not to get little sparklymouse's hopes up that NKOTB was going to invade Stoneybrook... I bet Ann got "excited" about having a vacation since she didn't even write #35. This book: Lou was creepy. Then in the Best Kid Ever she was creepy in a Stepford kid kind of way. In conclusion, Lou was creepy.
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