Saturday, February 23, 2019

Super Special #2 - Baby-Sitters Summer Vacation




Plot:
All of the Baby-Sitters Club, along with Logan and several of the kids from Stoneybrook, go to Camp Mohawk for two weeks over the summer. Stacey has moved back to New York, so all the Stoneybrook BSC members decide they want to go after Dawn makes them watch camp movies. They take quite awhile to convince Stacey to go, because she doesn't think she can live without the NYC building and Bloomingdales for two weeks (um...it's two weeks, Stace). Finally she agrees but says if she's going to be gone from New York for two solid weeks, everyone has to write journal entries so that she has a diary of her time away.

Highlights:

  • The camp is set up of age-separated cabins, with a counselor, two CITS (counselors in training), and six canpers. All the older BSC members are CITS, and Mallory and Jessi can't handle the fact that they are only 11, so they get special permission to be Junior CITS. All the other campers in their cabin make fun of them greatly for this. I don't blame them - that's fucking nerdy. Especially since Mallory makes them "Junior CIT" armbands to wear so they can stand out. 
  • Kristy and MaryAnne are both in cabins where their partner CITS make them feel like babies. Kristy's make her over and force her to go to the Movie Night and the Dance with the boys side, even though she doesn't want to. MaryAnne's are constantly testing her and they don't believe she has a boyfriend. So she writes a scandalous letter to him and leaves it on her bed for them to find. They do, and then convince her she needs to take it to Logan. So she leaves at night to walk the letter across the lake to the boys side - but they freak out and tell on her, so then she gets caught. They take the letter to Logan, and he gets made fun of pretty heavily. 
  • Stacey gets very sick and spends most of the time in the infirmary. 
  • Claudia, of course, meets a guy for two seconds when he comes over to invite the girls to Movie Night and the Dance, and falls madly in love. They find each other on Movie Night and have an intense love affair during the two times they are allowed to hang out. 
  • Dawn's group gets to go on an overnight camping trip, but they get lost and end up gone for two nights. What, Dawn, the camping expert, gets her group lost in the woods?? Shut the fuck up, Dawn. 
  • Mallory and Jessi's are, of course, connected at the hip. Their cabin-mates make fun of them, but then they take it a step too far by bringing race into it. Their special project is to create a dance for the 8 year old cabins, and they make it about twins who feel different than all their friends. - and of course, they make the twins Becca and Charlotte, a black girl and a white girl, to prove a point. 
  • Also, side note, it always amazes me how "shy" and how much stage fright Becca and Charlotte have, yet they are always on stage and in plays in these books. 

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