4th time through 6th/8th grade, and it's still fall - Buddy Barrett mentions that Halloween is right around the corner.
Plot
Dawn left for California for six months in the last book, and Mallory is annoyingly sick (always tired, but doesn't know what's wrong with her). The BSC is in TROUBLE. They have to call Logan and Shannon hundreds of times, and they've even had to TURN DOWN JOBS. Kristy is in total fucking panic mode. Jessi has a new friend, Wendy, who came over to her house and was really good with Becca and Squirt, so she suggest maybe they can invite her to join the club.
Wendy comes to a meeting, and then her and Jessi baby-sit the Barrett's together, and it all goes well so they ask her to join the club. Great. It all goes well for about a day. Then Wendy is 25 minutes late to a 30 minute meeting. Then she admits she is still taking jobs for her regular clients and not offering them to the club first. Then she is late for a sitting job with Jessi at the Pike's. Then she comes to a meeting and is pissed because she had to leave a Super Mario Brothers tournament to come to the stupid meeting. Kristy jumps down her throat, and Wendy is like fuck this and quits. So the club is back to square one.
The sub plot is that all the kids in Stoneybrook miss Dawn so they decide to put on a play and record it and send it to her. Little did they know, Dawn was making the same kind of thing for them. Aw. Then Dawn calls and the club starts to worry that she won't be coming back at all.
Oh, and another weird subplot is that Margo is a little thief - she's started shoplifting just to see if she can get away with it? Jessi sees her in action and tells her she has to tell her parents, which she doesn't, and then she tells Mallory who forces Margo to tell her parents. Mrs. Pike takes Margo to the store and makes her tell the manager. It's pretty good parenting.
Takeaways
I hate how every time the BSC needs to find new members, Kristy acts super bitchy and interrogates them about their sitting skills. It's like 1. Who the fuck made you queen of baby-sitting? and 2. You need them, bitch. That's why you asked them to come to the meeting. You need them way worse than they need you.
I understand that the club needs rules in order to function, but Kristy is a huge bitch about them to Wendy. No one tells her the rules. And then they act pissy when she breaks them.
And what do we think about Wendy having to tell all her previous clients (like her neighbors, basically), that now they have to wait until 530 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to call and set up an appt with her, and basically she may not get the job anyway? It just sucks bc the baby-sitters are so far up each other's asses that she can't even lie and just not tell them, because basically they think they should always know where each other are.
Like really, Jessi invited Wendy to join and she should have been the one to tell her the rules. So this whole thing is Jessi's fault.
I love how Mrs. Pike handled the shoplifting thing. No yelling, just making Margo own up to it.
Best Character
Mrs. Pike.
Worst Character
Jessi, for not explaining to Wendy what she was getting herself into. And Kristy, for not realizing she is operating a baby-sitting CLUB. It's not a fucking mega-million corporation, Kristy.
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