September of 8th repeat
Plot
Stacey is part of the pep squad, and she and another girl, Barbara are making a huge jaguar (that's their mascot) for the football games. A new girl, Tess, literally crashes right into it and destroys it. She offers to help fix it, as she is pretty artsy and smart. They take her up on that offer. While walking the broken pieces to wherever they are storing it, Tess runs into Alan Gray and covers him in paint or something. He gets unnecessarily pissed and decides to destroy her. He decides to call her a pig, because she wears all pink, is taller and larger than everyone else, and has a turned up nose.
Stacey decides it's her responsibility to fix Tess. She offers to give her a makeover, and tries to change everything about her. Tess is reluctant to change, and Stacey gets annoyed bc why can't Tess just take her advice? Stacey convinces her to join the pep squad, and at the first meeting she attends they all decide to change the mascot and vote on it at the next football game. They hold up pictures of animals that are options. Stacey is holding up the pictures, and she didn't know that someone had changed out the picture of the pig with a picture of Tess. Tess is obviously upset, and runs out of the stands, only to fall and break her ankle and sprain her wrist. Stacey offers to ride in the ambulance with her, but Tess tells her to go away and that she's not her friend. She then goes to her house to see if she is okay and she sees pictures of Tess in pictures at her old school in Paris where all the girls are wearing all pink. Tess basically tells Stacey to get lost.
Stacey is upset because she was soooo nice to Tess, but then her friends tell her that she actually wasn't very nice. Stacey feels awful, then she hears that the boys in her class are tricking Tess by making her think she is going on a date with a popular football player, but really they just want to get her to a restaurant called Hog Heaven to take embarrassing pictures of her. The BSC and Tess get together and trick the boys before they can trick them, but throwing paint and ketchup on them and taking a picture, then threatening them with the picture. Tess forgives Stacey and all is well.
The subplot in this book is that Jackie and Nicky are acting weird and secretive, and it ends up it's bc Jackie is scared of some bullies and asks Nicky to be his bodyguard.
Takeaways
I am pretty sure this is the first time we learn the SMS mascot is the jaguar. Also, I am pretty sure kids can't just vote to change a mascot - it's a pretty big deal. Why don't they have the same mascot as the high school?
The big prank to get back at the boys is pretty lame. Throwing paint and ketchup on them? I mean, that's embarrassing but why would a picture of that be blackmail enough for the boys to just back down?
It is ridic how involved and concerned these girls are about why Nicky and Jackie are acting weird.
Best Character
All of the BSC members except Stacey, because, for the first time ever, they are friendly to a newcomer and ask Stacey to invite Tess to sit with them at lunch, but Stacey says no bc she doesn't want to be seen with her.
Worst Character
It's a tie between Stacey, who think she is so impressive Tess should just blindly listen to her, and the boys who try to trick her. That is MEAN.
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