Should have taken place in Grade nine

[ashley868]

Sometimes I feel like this series should have taken place in grade nine, instead of eighth grade all over again. I'm not sure how many times they took eighth grade again in the regular series, but this one feels like a different series anyway. I haven't read all of the Friends Forever series and not for a long time. What I do remember though is that they cut down on a lot of time with the club, and it went back to the original four members. It would have made sense for them to have graduated around the end of the regular series and then have them start with this series in High School. It would make sense for everything to change for the girls since they are no longer in Middle School, and for them to have less time. In High School there will be more people and more homework, so for sure the girls would change. By the end of the ninth grade they would feel that it was time just to end the club instead of at eighth grade graduation. I could be wrong though, because I don't even remember which books I've read from the Friends Forever series except Graduation Day. I found it at the library and I just had to read it because they were finally leaving grade eight. Not only that, but I had graduated from grade eight not too long ago back then. I am pretty sure I had just started grade nine when I found that book, because I used to skip class all the time in grade nine and I would hide out at the public library and read. I know I've read other ones as well, like the wedding one and Everything Changes but not too sure about the others. I read whatever the library had.

[mallorypike]

I totally agree. All the books has a grade 9 feel especially Mary Anne's Revenge. I wish the BSC went to high school, it would have been interesting. Poor BSC, they were on the 8th grade for thirteen years

[bscfan1997]

Agreed. I personally think that the BSC members should've graduated SMS after Stacey's Movie but before The Fire At MA's House. Like maybe a super special or a companion book (like Secret Santa, Chain, BSC Notebook). Then when the FF began, they should've started Ninth grade at SHS. They were back to the original four, they'd matured and grown up, they'd not been serious about the BSC anymore (a club, not a business), and a lot had changed.

[Honeybee]

I agreed with you. They should went to 9th grade. Will be interesting to read a book about in high school.

[stolenbooks]

I agree. I do get why they chose to end it the way they did-with the BSC graduating middle school and therefore, moving on. But what made no sense was some took place during the summer. Like Welcome Home MA. Was that supposed to take place the summer before graduation?

I think it might have been better to have it take place during their first year of high school and then have the last book be all of them deciding to disband the club, as they saw how much high school was changing them.

I still hold out for new books about these girls. I know by now they'd be grown adults, but I'd like to see the high school years. They could all still babysit occasionally and don't have to be BFFs, but I'd like to see them make new friends and the struggles they went through. They went to more teenagerish topics like in the California Diaries. Sweet Valley High did something similar. Though I know it'll never happen. Ann has clearly moved on.