Summer after 9th repeat
Plot
It's summer time and MaryAnne is enjoying her normal life - sleeping in, lunches with Logan, talking to Dawn on the phone. She find a magazine with a "Best Babysitter" contest and she decides to enter with the entire BSC. Life is good.
Then - then she wakes up to a smoke filled house and the fire alarms ringing. Her entire house burns to the ground. She spends the next few days digging through the rubble with pretty much the entire town of Stoneybrook, and they are staying at Kristy's house, which is nice but crowded. MA doesn't cry a single tear, which is obviously very unlike her. Her parents start talking about a fresh start - maybe, away from Stoneybrook - possibly as far as Philadelphia. Finally, one night she can't sleep so she rides Kristy's bike over to the destroyed house and just sits and cries and cries. Dawn wakes up to find her gone, so she goes to find her and they cry together.
The BSC charges get together to send in their application for the Best Babysitter contest, but we never hear if they won.
Takeaways
Holy shit - I made it to the LAST BOOK in the regular series! And I will tell you what - it was a doozy to get through. I kept tearing up about the fire, but also I think because I knew this was it.
There really isn't a lot of takeaways other than what I wrote up in the plot summary.
I seriously had to fight back tears.
It's pretty clear it was the last book in the regular series - there was a lot of "remember whens" throughout the entire book.
Best Character
I don't even know. Dawn flew in right away to be with her family. MA and her family had to deal with a fire. The entire town of Stoneybrook took them in and took care of them. Everyone was the best.
Worst Character
Just the fire. The fire was the worst.
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