Winter/early spring of their second 8th grade year
Plot
All the kids in Stoneybrook have pen pals with a sister school. Dawn hears about it from the Pike’s and gets kind of jealous bc she wants one too. Then the pen pals’ school burns down and Dawn decides it’s up to her to organize a giant fundraiser, food/clothing drive and then, as a reward, give the kids a giant sleepover in the school.
I realize this is lame, but that is literally all that happens in this book. The sleepover happens and it’s loud and annoying but probably kind of fun. And the kids were super pumped to help their friends.
Takeaways
I feel like there has to be some kind of policy not allowing kids to spend the night in a school.
Dawn is all worried about Kristy taking over the project and taking all the credit. That doesn’t happen.
The kids start donating their parents stuff without asking. It’s kind of hilarious. The parents are way cooler about it than they should have been - they actually bought it back from them, rather than just taking it back.
Best character
I mean, Dawn does something very selfless in this book for a bunch of kids thousands of miles away that she doesn’t even know. So Dawn.
Worst character
Mrs. Rodowsky tells her boys they can have a yard sale but then hires Claudia to run it. Can the parents in Stoneybrook never do anything with their children???
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