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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 3, 2012 12:48:53 GMT -5
She got police protection for a few days after Logan reported them!
Real gangs jump people in and out. Logan got off easy.
Peter added the words "crispy" and "Squank!" to the BSC slang in this one.
The little feminism PSA at the end was too much. Dawn said it was sexist to think that only boys could be bullies, and somehow that translated into Dr. Johannsen being a woman doctor. I don't know.
I really like the cover of Logan and random kids (one wearing BUM Equipment sweatpants, lol) that he didn't baby-sit for playing Twister in a living room with badly clashing furniture.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 22, 2012 19:31:29 GMT -5
^I've always wondered who the kid's were supposed to be. The girl could possibly be Suzi although like a lot of the kid images "she" looks older than 5. The boy wearing jeans looks like a young Jeff, either that or a blond Pike triplet. The Bum equipment wearer almost looks like Logan on the cover so maybe that's supposed to be Hunter? I just thought of something. In "Kristy and the Haunted Mansion," Mal and Mary Anne are baby-sitting at the Pikes. Mary Anne spins the twister wheel for Nicky, Margo, and Claire. Maybe Hodges and Peter, the ghostie on this book, mixed up the book, kids, and sitter? I actually don't remember Twister being played in any other book. Back to "this" book. I'm not a fan at all. I kept thinking what a better second Logan book could have been. Maybe one of the Arnold twins has a crush on him or a new client parent (not named Lowell) doesn't feel comfortable leaving her young child with a "boy" sitter? Could have even finally been Logan recruiting at least one other male associate member for the BSC the way he said he could in #10. IDK, most anything probably would have been more entertaining. If the writers really wanted a "Grease" plot they should have just made "Peter Pan," "Grease," for SS9, maybe that could have "helped" that one along, too.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 23, 2012 18:11:31 GMT -5
This is one of those images that was in a BSC calendar before it was ever on the cover of a book, so it's got nothing to do with the story, like the random roller skating on the cover of Mary Anne Misses Logan.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 23, 2012 20:34:23 GMT -5
^Thanks, Wanderingfrog.  |
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 24, 2012 0:07:58 GMT -5
You BEAST through those BSC books, zoar! You go, girl!
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Post by wiggir13 on Nov 25, 2012 9:44:27 GMT -5
Oh this book just doesn't get better with age. I found all the characters to be very caricaturish. It's like the writers took the cheesiest thing they could think of from old cheesy movies about gangs and wrote them in.
I did enjoy the bsc hysteria over nick cash b/c that seems very realistic to me. I totally agree about the feminism stuff in the end to be completely irrelevant!
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Post by candykane on Nov 26, 2012 20:21:07 GMT -5
I was watching Greek and 2 characters actually called pizza "'za." I am assuming that the writer of that particular scene has read this book. "Za" also counts as a Scrabble word! It's saved me a time or two when I got stuck with the Z in online Scrabble. |
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Post by andrew on Jul 13, 2016 8:27:37 GMT -5
The only things that struck me as really anachronistic were the ending in which it seemed like *everyone else* disliked the bad crowd and the idea that pretty much all boys dislike the male heartthrob singers that girls like (although the latter is probably still common, at least in middle school).
Weird to see anyone at SMS smoking and it being semi-tolerated by the authorities. It was really interesting to read Logan's mix of ambitions, frustrations and anxieties.
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Natasha
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Post by Natasha on May 12, 2017 10:01:16 GMT -5
Just read this one and its terrible! It was cringe worthy and I thought Logan had more brains than this. Apparently not. And why didn't he dob on them earlier and save all this unnecessary drama?
Hated this one.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Oct 4, 2022 0:57:35 GMT -5
I thought that the title for this one should have been the title of Logan's Story and vice versa, but I enjoyed them both. Logan was one of my favorite characters. Considering he did barely any babysitting in this book, I agree. The other book was a crisis about him babysitting a lot more than usual. |
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Post by oldmeanie on Oct 24, 2022 17:10:15 GMT -5
Just finished this one. It's actually one of the more entertaining books imo. It's fun to read about the sitters being "bad."
I'm not sure why this one is called "Boy Baby-sitter." He doesn't actually babysit in this book. I think Logan's Story and this one should swap titles.
Weirdly, I don't have much to say about this one. I've been skimming the Chapter Twos, but in Logan's books, I read them out of curiosity. He has a couple funny remarks about Kristy and Dawn:
"I think Kristy could be marooned on a South Sea island without a watch, and she’d still know when it was exactly five-thirty on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. And she’d probably cry out “Order!” to the seagulls."
"She simply loves health foods. Tofu, sprouts, seeds, nuts — I think she fights the squirrels for acorns in the park. Just kidding."
This one has funny quips like that. For some reason I didn't highlight it, but I also liked the line about the BSC in leather jackets and cigarettes. Lol. The Badd Boyz were pretty tame as far as gangs go. Even the police officer said their threats were empty. I guess they were into petty theft and... smoking?
Logan does seem naive, but I understand why he didn't do anything right away. I've had a bully threaten to break my arm if I told on her, and I didn't all year even though she'd do things like bend my fingers back until they hurt. When you're younger, it's very easy to succumb to peer pressure. I don't fully blame him about the stolen Nicky Cash tickets, either, and I like that they almost went to the concert anyway. Feels more realistic.
I liked King's confession to Logan and him saying what he did took guts. That was pretty cool.
The EJ subplot was okay. Actually kind of short. I liked the kids' solution to it.
Mary Anne makes a mistake! Not sure the actual page number, but it's in Chapter 12 on page 81 of the Kindle:
"I’d never seen Mary Anne so excited. She actually booked Jessi for two different jobs at the same time.Fortunately Jessi realized it immediately and they were able to change things around. Now that is really not like Mary Anne."
What. So from now on, when she's described as never making a mistake, you'll know it's b.s. Lol I can't believe it.
OMG. Logan goes to his parents on this book! When he feels he's in danger, he doesn't think, "I don't want to worry them," he ACTUALLY TALKS TO THEM. For the BSC, this is noteworthy.
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Post by oldhickory on Oct 26, 2022 10:09:55 GMT -5
Oh this book just doesn't get better with age. I found all the characters to be very caricaturish. It's like the writers took the cheesiest thing they could think of from old cheesy movies about gangs and wrote them in. Quoting a very old comment but this is so true. Peter Lerangis wrote this one so it was always going to be goofy, but you'd think he would write boy emotions well. (I would rather have a male author tackle Logan's books, but Peter is the only male ghostwriter who ever wrote solo.) There are definitely tryhards at all ages who behave like this, but the characters seemed much younger than they were supposed to be. I could easily see the Pike Triplets calling themselves the Bad Boys and taking the name seriously. |
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Post by fernmariposa919 on Aug 1, 2023 18:31:10 GMT -5
Did anyone think it was weird how Logan described Claudia and Stacey as "drop dead gorgeous" and then adds for the reader not to get any ideas, that he's only describing how they look? Okay, Logan, you can tell us they're pretty girls without calling them "drop dead gorgeous". The way he says it makes it sounds like he has the hots for them. I don't see him describing Mary Anne like that! I'm sure Mary Anne wouldn't be too happy that he thought of her friends that way!
Also, the sequined body suit (that Logan describes as "sexy" - has that word ever been used in a BSC book before?) that Mary Anne is wearing for the concert does not sound like something Mary Anne would wear. Stacey or Claudia, sure, but I was thinking it would be something Laine would wear. Also, Nicky Cash sounds totally lame. Was he supposed to be like a Marky-Mark type? I wasn't really sure, but his music sounded terrible. Interesting how he's a one off. Was he part of the band that Stacey and her "bad girl" friends go to see. What were they called? U 4 Me? Didn't Nicky Cash start out in a boyband and branch off as a solo artist. I can't remember it was U 4 Me or a very similar band name.
What is up with the word "Squank" (was that even it?) and what the hell does it mean?
Logan is so naive in this; duh, Logan, of course the "Badd Boyz" are stealing. I did laugh when they called him "Ken Doll". I feel like if Mary Anne found out about it, she would think it's cute and start calling him that! Good thing he never told her!
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