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Post by sugarmonkey on Oct 1, 2006 17:20:00 GMT -5
Well, obnoxious much? How about bossy, pushy? At least she learned her lesson. I guess. Except for those remarks in later books about dead animal carcasses and such.
This book did have some good tips though. But, I don't think letting a bunch of kids vote on whether they want to recycle or not and relying on the parents to volunteer to take the stuff to the local center would work for very long. People tend to be good intentioned at first but then the novelty wears off. Then again, they are Stoneybrookites.
I wonder how so many kids could get so excited about green living ALL the time for six whole weeks. Every babysitting job the BSC complianed about the kids being ssooo into the whole thing. Can you imagine how the parents felt having to live the kids?
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Post by inge on Oct 2, 2006 5:51:25 GMT -5
This was one of the first ones I've read! Like the fourth or something. I've read this one sooooo often. I actually like it, if only for the sentimental values I like the way Dawn gets carried away and learns her lesson, I mean, after all, she's just standing up for what she believes in, even if she's doing it the wrong way. And I like how the kids got all enthusiastic about the idea and how Mal got sent to 'green school' multiple times, haha. The ideas for 'saving the planet' were quite simple and quite good. A little unrealistic imo was the way Dawn pulled the recycling thing at SMS of (of course this is never mentioned again). But I did feel really bad for her when she didn't get to run it and when she didn't get any credit for it at all.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Oct 2, 2006 8:35:44 GMT -5
I wonder how so many kids could get so excited about green living ALL the time for six whole weeks. Every babysitting job the BSC complianed about the kids being ssooo into the whole thing. Can you imagine how the parents felt having to live the kids? And then how it's never, ever mentioned again by the kids in any of the other books. Dawn really annoyed me in this book. I pushed hard to get recycling in the dorms at my college, and to get my high school to stop using pesticides on the grounds. But I like to think that I wasn't as fanatically obnoxious and totally annoying as she was in that book.
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Post by liss31d on Oct 2, 2006 9:19:06 GMT -5
Thing is in a real life situation, would kids of those ages have gotten excited and really into ecology as the kids in the books?
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Post by starrynight on Oct 2, 2006 11:11:37 GMT -5
My best friend (who was my BSC partner in crime back in the day) and I both agree that this was one of our least favorite books. I'm all for conservation and saving the environment, butI don't really want to read about recycling just because I do it.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Oct 2, 2006 12:53:25 GMT -5
I kind of liked Dawn in this book, actually. I wasn't really annoyed by her over the top bossyness and whatnot, I thought it was rather endearing that she cared so much. I kind of thought it was cute, lol. The kids being SO into this whole thing, though, was really kind of random. I'm having trouble remembering details of this book, though.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Oct 2, 2006 15:28:17 GMT -5
Thing is in a real life situation, would kids of those ages have gotten excited and really into ecology as the kids in the books? Not every single kid in town for six straight weeks, that's for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2006 12:56:34 GMT -5
What a serious OUCH when Dawn gets no recognition about being the impetus for the program. And she knows it's because no one can stand her! Man, that moment made this book worthwhile. I felt for her then.
What was with the cover, too? Uh, that's one awkward pose.
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Post by macca on Oct 4, 2006 17:14:01 GMT -5
Thing is in a real life situation, would kids of those ages have gotten excited and really into ecology as the kids in the books? Probably not all of them, but kids can be pretty impressionable and parrot-like with what they're taught. I feel sorry for the parents having to live with little self-righteous, know-it-all kids!! ;D
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Post by hitzpink on Oct 13, 2006 19:50:34 GMT -5
Well, I liked this book! I loved the green school thing the Pikes set up. So funny. The kids in this town sure seem to get carried away with every random thing that comes around. Recycling, buying crap from the back of magazines, etc. Everyone always get SO into everything! Anyway, yeah Dawn definitely got carried away but I don't blame her. She is young and passionate about her cause! She just took it too far, but I felt bad for her in the end when she realized everyone hated her.
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Post by liss31d on Oct 23, 2006 8:18:12 GMT -5
What I also don't get is how Dawn and Stacey each wrote 30 pages for their whole assignment... what did they write about! Did they use size 28 font or something because when I had to do science coursework last year, the teachers would normally say that 10-15 pages would be the maximum that we were allowed to write! In most cases, even less!
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Post by buffykay70 on Oct 23, 2006 9:59:27 GMT -5
even tho dawn went totally over board with the whole envrionmental cause, i felt sorry for her when they didnt even recognise that she was the brains behind the whole recyling program. how rude and at least dawn had good intentions.
and i have a quick question. i am australian so i dont know anything about recyling in america. over here we get a whole garbage bin for recyclable materials as well as the regular garbage bin. do u have that too in the us? sorry if its a dumb q. but in the book the only recycling centre was the local highschool which was odd.
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Post by lilafowler on Oct 23, 2006 13:47:25 GMT -5
^We have the same system, with the separate containers for recyclables and nonrecyclables, in my county, at least. The only difference is that nonrecyclables are collected twice a week and recyclables are only collected once a week. It's been that way as long as I can remember; I was confused about a recycling center at a school, too. I imagined the actual processing of the materials taking place, like, on the football field.
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Post by macca on Oct 23, 2006 17:46:03 GMT -5
^ where I live, recyclables are collected every fortnight and non-recyclables are collected every week. And the non-recyclable bin is much smaller than the recyclable, so it forces you to use it.
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Post by hitzpink on Oct 23, 2006 21:24:33 GMT -5
We have a recycling system, too. Regular garbage gets collected on Wednesdays and recyclables get collected on Saturdays. But I think this is a relatively new thing, in the past few years or so. It used to be common to have to sort and gather your own recyclables and take them to a community center or something. They wrote THIRTY PAGES EACH for their report?! Holy crap! I'm in college and I've never even written a 30 page paper!
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