It must be springtime of their second 8th grade year - it is warm enough for MA to take babies on walks outside with just sweaters on.
Plot
All of the 8th grade girls are in a class called Modern Living, where they get paired up as a married couple and are given an egg to use as a baby. Logan and MA are partners. Logan acts pretty ridiculous about their egg baby and doesn’t trust MA to take care of her (yes, they pretend the egg is a girl). They try to go on a date but it ends in a fight.
Finally, the project ends and they both realize they are way too young to have kids and be married. Which I guess is the whole point of the project.
Also MA has a semi steady sitting job for twin babies, hence the “too many babies” thing.
Takeaways
These idiots are way too serious about their “egg babies”. They won’t put them down. They cry over them. Seriously it’s a fucking egg.
In MaryAnne’s class she gets to choose her husband, but it seems like everyone else is assigned.
The title of this book really doesn’t make a lot of sense, either.
We had a class like this, too, but it wasn’t until later in high school. I think I was a junior?
Best character
The teacher of the Modern Living class. When the students are freaking out about their marriages and their eggs she’s just like “meh, it’ll buff out.”
Worst character
Kristy is married to Alan Gray and she spends like a half hour on the phone - during a babysitting job - with him to discuss their eggs social development. It’s literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in a BSC book.
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