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everemmareads's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
inthelunaseas's review against another edition
3.0
Ahh, yes, the book that convinced thousands of children everywhere that they had diabetes, just like Stacey. Hypochondriacs, just like Charlotte, sprung up by the hundreds as they suddenly become thirsty after playing football in summer.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
lunaseassecondaccount's review against another edition
3.0
Ahh, yes, the book that convinced thousands of children everywhere that they had diabetes, just like Stacey. Hypochondriacs, just like Charlotte, sprung up by the hundreds as they suddenly become thirsty after playing football in summer.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
drshakespeare's review against another edition
5.0
Fudge has never tasted as good in real life as it did to Stacy in this book. Moral? Secrets are bad.
bibliotequeish's review against another edition
As a kid my best friends sister had the whole BSC series on a book shelf in her room. I thought she was so grown up. And I envied this bookshelf. And would often poke my head into that room just to look at it.
And when I read BSC, I felt like such a grown up.
And while I might have still been a little too young to understand some of the issues dealt with in these books, I do appreciated that Ann M. Martin tackled age appropriate issues, some being deeper than others, but still important.
inthelunaseas's review against another edition
3.0
Ahh, yes, the book that convinced thousands of children everywhere that they had diabetes, just like Stacey. Hypochondriacs, just like Charlotte, sprung up by the hundreds as they suddenly become thirsty after playing football in summer.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
jamietherebelliousreader's review against another edition
4.0
4 stars. Stacey is one of my favorites and this book is a prime example as to why. She gets really sick because of her diabetes and ends up in the hospital. On top of that she is still dealing with the aftermath of her parent’s divorce and how her life has changed so much because of it. She’s so mature and I think she handled everything so well. I loved the other girls coming out to the hospital to visit her I thought that was sweet. This was such a great read and I liked the way this ended.
inthelunaseas's review against another edition
3.0
Ahh, yes, the book that convinced thousands of children everywhere that they had diabetes, just like Stacey. Hypochondriacs, just like Charlotte, sprung up by the hundreds as they suddenly become thirsty after playing football in summer.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which is apparently linked with depression- tmyk!), and diabetes can be hard to control, but there's definitely a fear factor here.
Mary Anne and Claudia still have atrocious handwriting.
finesilkflower's review against another edition
5.0
Stacey goes to the hospital.
Stacey’s been feeling tired and under stress with her schoolwork and her parents quizzing her about each other, and she starts sneaking candy. On a trip to see her dad, she’s so tired and sick that her father takes her to the hospital. She ends up staying in a New York City hospital for two weeks, alternately feeling better and worse as the doctors try different mixes of insulin. The slow build-up of Stacey’s illness, details about hospital life from a seasoned hospital-dweller, problems dealing with parents who refuse to be in the same room with each other, and a couple of fun visits from Laine and the senior BSC members make this book eminently readable. (And we were about due for a Sick Stacey book.) I think this was one of my favorites as a kid.
This book contains the infamous thirsty sequence, where Stacey keeps running to the bathroom of the train to drink water from her cupped hands because she can’t get enough to drink. And a generation of girls thought they had diabetes every time they were thirsty.
(As an aside, how awesome is Kristy in other people’s books? She World’s Smallest Violins Stacey in the hospital.)
Where Is Stoneybrook? In this book, 1:45-2:00 from New York.
Sign of the Times: Stacey is all impressed with the hospital’s digital (not glass) thermometer.
Timing: During the school year.
Revised Timeline: Spring of tenth grade
Stacey’s been feeling tired and under stress with her schoolwork and her parents quizzing her about each other, and she starts sneaking candy. On a trip to see her dad, she’s so tired and sick that her father takes her to the hospital. She ends up staying in a New York City hospital for two weeks, alternately feeling better and worse as the doctors try different mixes of insulin. The slow build-up of Stacey’s illness, details about hospital life from a seasoned hospital-dweller, problems dealing with parents who refuse to be in the same room with each other, and a couple of fun visits from Laine and the senior BSC members make this book eminently readable. (And we were about due for a Sick Stacey book.) I think this was one of my favorites as a kid.
This book contains the infamous thirsty sequence, where Stacey keeps running to the bathroom of the train to drink water from her cupped hands because she can’t get enough to drink. And a generation of girls thought they had diabetes every time they were thirsty.
(As an aside, how awesome is Kristy in other people’s books? She World’s Smallest Violins Stacey in the hospital.)
Where Is Stoneybrook? In this book, 1:45-2:00 from New York.
Sign of the Times: Stacey is all impressed with the hospital’s digital (not glass) thermometer.
Timing: During the school year.
Revised Timeline: Spring of tenth grade
sammah's review against another edition
3.0
I really actually liked this book as a kid, and I still find it pretty decent as an adult. Perhaps because most books that deal with any sort of illness or disease really never touch on diabetes. It's a rough condition for adults, and pretty nasty for children. I know a couple of people who had it super young, and yeah. Not easy. So I can at least appreciate that.
This book is pretty par for the course though when it comes to a book about a kid with a medical condition. Stacey isn't feeling well, and begins to slip with her diet which doesn't help the condition at all. She lands in the hospital when she goes to New York to visit her father, and spends a week getting different doses of insulin. At one point she's even put on an insulin drip while they to figure out the best course of action. Her parents also can't put aside their own nastiness from the divorce to be in the same room together, not even to support their sick child.
I'd like to say that adults should/could put aside their issues and deal with things like this. Sadly though a LOT of people are pretty damn petty, so this wasn't out of the realm of possibility in the real world.
However, four thirteen year olds traveling alone via train to NYC to visit her in the hospital without any adult supervision?
Yeah, that's pretty unrealistic right there.
In the end they figure it out and she returns home to Stoneybrook. All is well, eventually with poor Charlotte Johanssen who lost her shit. Now the BSC can drag Stacey into their next crazy scheme without worrying that she'll keel over! Yay!
This book is pretty par for the course though when it comes to a book about a kid with a medical condition. Stacey isn't feeling well, and begins to slip with her diet which doesn't help the condition at all. She lands in the hospital when she goes to New York to visit her father, and spends a week getting different doses of insulin. At one point she's even put on an insulin drip while they to figure out the best course of action. Her parents also can't put aside their own nastiness from the divorce to be in the same room together, not even to support their sick child.
I'd like to say that adults should/could put aside their issues and deal with things like this. Sadly though a LOT of people are pretty damn petty, so this wasn't out of the realm of possibility in the real world.
However, four thirteen year olds traveling alone via train to NYC to visit her in the hospital without any adult supervision?
Yeah, that's pretty unrealistic right there.
In the end they figure it out and she returns home to Stoneybrook. All is well, eventually with poor Charlotte Johanssen who lost her shit. Now the BSC can drag Stacey into their next crazy scheme without worrying that she'll keel over! Yay!