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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.
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.
leedigesu's review against another edition
3.0
This one was just okay. Quick little stories about each of the members.
I realized from the last one (the two roadtrips across the US, although that one was better) I don't like when they split in two groups.
In this one some of the girls (and Logan) stay in Stoneybrook to run a camp while the others go off to Europe. But even within that I can think of 4 times some of the BSC went off on their own while in London and Paris.
I'm also kind of bummed because this is the last in the Super Specials series so I've now finished them all.
But I did save this as the last book I needed to meet my GR Reading Challenge for this year so in some way I feel the BSC helped me meet my goals. :)
I realized from the last one (the two roadtrips across the US, although that one was better) I don't like when they split in two groups.
In this one some of the girls (and Logan) stay in Stoneybrook to run a camp while the others go off to Europe. But even within that I can think of 4 times some of the BSC went off on their own while in London and Paris.
I'm also kind of bummed because this is the last in the Super Specials series so I've now finished them all.
But I did save this as the last book I needed to meet my GR Reading Challenge for this year so in some way I feel the BSC helped me meet my goals. :)
finesilkflower's review against another edition
4.0
The baby-sitters have adventures on a school trip to London and Paris, while others counsel at a playground camp back home.
In Europe, Kristy butts heads with a French-Canadian Alan Gray; Jessi meets up with her former dance troupe, Dance NY, on tour in London; Abby is excited to be invited to a royal event by former Stonybrook resident and actual princess Victoria Kent; Stacey gets her luggage mixed up with a WW2 vet who's taking a friend's ashes to Normandy; and Mallory becomes obsessed with a story she's writing and misses everything. In Stonybrook, Claudia feels picked on when her sister, Janine, becomes a counselor for the playground camp; Mary Anne and Dawn are also there.
Actually... for a Super Special... I liked it! I normally hate Super Specials because the plot is so fragmented, but somehow it managed to keep a lot of balls in air without making the individual plots feel rushed or boring. It felt MORE action packed than the usual BSC book, instead of LESS, as most Super Specials do. The pacing was better than usual. Each plotline was juicy enough to be interesting but simple enough to be told completely with a beginning, middle, and end in the few chapters allotted to it, and there were even some mini-plotlines, like Robert's chapter, that were self-contained. There were enough glimpses into the other plots in each thread to keep the momentum going for the background plots while focusing on each character's personal drama. The sin of "why is this girl telling this chapter when it's really about somebody else" was thankfully rare. And the book picked up several threads from past books, so it didn't feel completely out of continuity.
Of course, most of the plotlines were pretty unbelievable and more over-the-top than a normal BSC book; Abby meeting the Queen (sort of), Jessi performing on a London stage at the spur of the moment, Mallory finding out she's a descendent of William Shakespeare, etc. And there is zero thought given to how a school trip would actually be arranged, or whether kids this age would EVER have this much freedom to separate from the group and do their own thing, which seems to happen all the time. But the Super Specials are supposed to be big, wild adventures, so I don't really mind them taking place on a different plane of reality than the normal series. The book was supposed to deliver a European vacation, and by god, it hits all the marks! If you're going to make a big adventure book, I'd rather it be a rollicking good time than a bore, like the Disney propoganda that was the cruise adventure. And it's not like there weren't also lower-key stories, like Claudia and Janine learning to work together, and Stacey befriending a WW2 vet (for some reason).
Author Gratefully Acknowledges: I can tell without looking it up that this is a Lerangis. It has Peter Lerangis's fingerprints all over it. The juicy, action-and-romance-packed plotlines. The willingness to be a little "out there." The edgy, pre-YA themes and language. Most BSC ghostwriters err on the side of inoffensiveness, but Lerangis doesn't mind throwing in a little more of the adult world, be it a car accident (thankfully there wasn't one in this one) or a mention of terrorists (explaining TSA procedures). Lerangis doesn't care if the book causes a young girl to ask "Mom, what's a terrorist?" Other key Lerangis tipoffs include background adult drama, sentences. Separated. By. Periods. For. Emphasis, and humor that is actually pretty funny.
Timing: Summer vacation, obvs.
Revised Timeline: First summer after college graduation. Prime backpacking through Europe time, I guess. And, of course, prime time for half of your friends to say, "uhhhh I can't afford that I have to work."
In Europe, Kristy butts heads with a French-Canadian Alan Gray; Jessi meets up with her former dance troupe, Dance NY, on tour in London; Abby is excited to be invited to a royal event by former Stonybrook resident and actual princess Victoria Kent; Stacey gets her luggage mixed up with a WW2 vet who's taking a friend's ashes to Normandy; and Mallory becomes obsessed with a story she's writing and misses everything. In Stonybrook, Claudia feels picked on when her sister, Janine, becomes a counselor for the playground camp; Mary Anne and Dawn are also there.
Actually... for a Super Special... I liked it! I normally hate Super Specials because the plot is so fragmented, but somehow it managed to keep a lot of balls in air without making the individual plots feel rushed or boring. It felt MORE action packed than the usual BSC book, instead of LESS, as most Super Specials do. The pacing was better than usual. Each plotline was juicy enough to be interesting but simple enough to be told completely with a beginning, middle, and end in the few chapters allotted to it, and there were even some mini-plotlines, like Robert's chapter, that were self-contained. There were enough glimpses into the other plots in each thread to keep the momentum going for the background plots while focusing on each character's personal drama. The sin of "why is this girl telling this chapter when it's really about somebody else" was thankfully rare. And the book picked up several threads from past books, so it didn't feel completely out of continuity.
Of course, most of the plotlines were pretty unbelievable and more over-the-top than a normal BSC book; Abby meeting the Queen (sort of), Jessi performing on a London stage at the spur of the moment, Mallory finding out she's a descendent of William Shakespeare, etc. And there is zero thought given to how a school trip would actually be arranged, or whether kids this age would EVER have this much freedom to separate from the group and do their own thing, which seems to happen all the time. But the Super Specials are supposed to be big, wild adventures, so I don't really mind them taking place on a different plane of reality than the normal series. The book was supposed to deliver a European vacation, and by god, it hits all the marks! If you're going to make a big adventure book, I'd rather it be a rollicking good time than a bore, like the Disney propoganda that was the cruise adventure. And it's not like there weren't also lower-key stories, like Claudia and Janine learning to work together, and Stacey befriending a WW2 vet (for some reason).
Author Gratefully Acknowledges: I can tell without looking it up that this is a Lerangis. It has Peter Lerangis's fingerprints all over it. The juicy, action-and-romance-packed plotlines. The willingness to be a little "out there." The edgy, pre-YA themes and language. Most BSC ghostwriters err on the side of inoffensiveness, but Lerangis doesn't mind throwing in a little more of the adult world, be it a car accident (thankfully there wasn't one in this one) or a mention of terrorists (explaining TSA procedures). Lerangis doesn't care if the book causes a young girl to ask "Mom, what's a terrorist?" Other key Lerangis tipoffs include background adult drama, sentences. Separated. By. Periods. For. Emphasis, and humor that is actually pretty funny.
Timing: Summer vacation, obvs.
Revised Timeline: First summer after college graduation. Prime backpacking through Europe time, I guess. And, of course, prime time for half of your friends to say, "uhhhh I can't afford that I have to work."
spilled's review
3.0
Ah. BSC. I don't know why I thought of this today, but what I remember most is that I can't do a french accent and Kristy/Sarah got to kiss the French-Canadian Michel on top of the Eiffel Tower. It remains the best group-read-aloud-book-time I have ever experienced. Fond memories.
sammah's review
2.0
The last super special, and potentially the worst. It was more convoluted than usual, which is saying a lot for a BSC book. Meeting the queen (sort-of)? Getting lost in Paris and having the chaperones be cool with it? Janine Kishi volunteering for something that involves being outside all summer? I don't buy any of this! I CALL SHENANIGANS!
xtinamorse's review
Read my recap at A Year with the BSC via Stoneybrook Forever: www.livethemovies.com/bsc-blog/baby-sitters-european-vacation
megdurazo's review
2.0
the best thing about this book is i finished it. the later you get into the super specials, as well as the regular series, you can tell that the author is having to come up with wild ideas and just...like 8% of this book is plausible. y’all went to london and france and i was bored the whole time!!
ssshira's review
1.0
this is my first time reading this book!
in this FINAL MAIN SERIES SUPER SPECIAL (I’m so close to the end of these books! aaaahhh!) by ghostwriter [a:Peter Lerangis|17216|Peter Lerangis|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1273412599p2/17216.jpg], some of the babysitters go on the sms-hosted trip to london and paris, while the others stay in stoneybrook to work at the playground camp referenced in [b:Mary Anne and the Playground Fight|133755|Mary Anne and the Playground Fight (The Baby-Sitters Club, #120)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386925693s/133755.jpg|128850]. the framing device for the book is that jessi is making a travel journal for mary anne, dawn, and claudia, since they’re stuck in stoneybrook. don’t ask me why mary anne, dawn, and claudia narrate chapters in the travel journal, but whatevs. see the narrator character plotlines before (all bsc members, with one chapter narrated by stacey’s ex boyfriend robert).
character plotlines:
stacey: accidentally took the wrong luggage at the airport and finds that the luggage she took has cremains in it. she can’t decide whether she’s more horrified by the cremains or by having to wear clothes she borrows from other people. turns out the cremains belong to a wwii veteran whose friend was going to scatter them on the beach at normandy, because they were in d day together. stacey helps him out and has a meaningful experience thinking about veterans and how tough they’ve had it.
mal: hangs out with her english cousin gillian who is a writer. finds out she's a descendant of shakespeare due to gillian’s family tree and spends the rest of the book writing (a very mal plotline)
kristy: has a will-they, won't-they thing with a canadian boy, michel. they end up getting lost from their group in paris and spend an afternoon together and bicker so much until they finally kiss.
jessi: goes to see david brailsford’s dance team (from [b:Jessi's Big Break|794934|Jessi's Big Break (The Baby-Sitters Club, #115)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328835549s/794934.jpg|780913]) perform in london. one of their dancers sprains her ankle and the understudy has food poisoning. conveniently enough, they're doing a dance that jessi knows, so they ask her to step in and she does well. see lowlights for my thoughts on this.
abby: victoria kent is supposed to present flowers to the queen and asks abby to stand with her for it. then she steps on the prince's shoe and a photo is taken of it and published in local papers.
robert: jacqui is still obsessed with him (as she has been in [b:Stacey and the Stolen Hearts|809626|Stacey and the Stolen Hearts (Baby-Sitters Club Mystery, #33)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387703761s/809626.jpg|795567] and [b:Stacey’s Ex-Boyfriend|558329|Stacey's Ex-Boyfriend (The Baby-Sitters Club, #119)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387701362s/558329.jpg|2816867]) and being grossly flirty ("we don't have to tell stacey, you know." "about what?" "you know. about us!" ewwwww!) but robert finally is a jerk to her and she backs off.
claudia: (in stoneybrook) works at playground camp. janine works there too and is super controlling towards her. turns out it's because her ex boyfriend jerry, who is also working there, is being a jerk to her, so she bottles up her grumpy feelings and unleashes them unintentionally on claudia. finally, egged on by claud, she stands up to jerry.
dawn: (in stoneybrook) works at playground camp. one day she subs at sunshine gang, a camp for kids with developmental and intellectual disabilities. susan (from [b:Kristy and the Secret of Susan|1382964|Kristy and the Secret of Susan (The Baby-Sitters Club, #32)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388254442s/1382964.jpg|1781098]) is there and has a temple grandin hug machine which freaks dawn out. they don't say temple grandin's name but they reference her specifically.
mary anne: (in stoneybrook) works at playground camp. cokie is bad at her job and mary anne has to pick up the slack. that’s basically it.
highlights:
-alan gray gets stopped by security at the airport for acting suspicious on purpose. this is so pre-9/11. like, post 9/11 he would've been detained for so long as to miss the flight and maybe would’ve still been arrested. but also it’s so alan gray and he’s just so precious.
-they're on a trip with a canadian school: zehava berger junior high. they don’t explicitly stay that it’s a jewish day school, but do they even have to? I go to זהבה ברגר חטיבת ביניים
-the stoneybrook kids say something about how they do things in america and michel says that canada is part of america too and that they live in a country called the united states. BOOM. nobody ever addresses this in anything, but it needs to be addressed. the country is the united states of america. the americas include many countries. it’s super ethnocentric to call the united states "america" when it’s just not.
-when writing my rant below about jessi’s ridiculous coincidental luck, I realized something. one of the dancers sprains her ankle and another has food poisoning. is there any chance jessi gave the understudy some expired tapioca and told the dancer the nearest bathroom was just past the extremely slippery, recently waxed hallway? COULD JESSI HAVE ORCHESTRATED HER OWN DEBUT BY SABOTAGING OTHER DANCERS? she has way more ambition than, like, anyone else in any of these books, so I definitely buy it. now I’m rethinking the conclusion of [b:Jessi and the Dance School Phantom|1426190|Jessi and the Dance School Phantom (The Baby-Sitters Club, #42)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387715993s/1426190.jpg|1416651]...
lowlights/nitpicks:
-the biggest problem with the book is how preposterous and coincidental everything is. it’s like when I’m talking about how jem and the holograms is a fantasy show and it has nothing to do with the fact that jerrica has magical earrings that turn her into the truly outrageous hologram jem, but actually it’s just that jem wins the freakin’ indy 500 the first and only time she ever tries to compete in it, without ever practicing or anything. and how she gets nominated for best actress at the academy awards even though she’s never acted before and is in a crappy cheesy movie. this book is like jem and the holograms, but not in a charming way. jessi conveniently is in the right place at the right time so that when one of the dancers gets hurt and the understudy has food poisoning, jessi gets asked to step in last-minute. and she does so, and she does well? SERIOUSLY? that kind of crap doesn’t happen in real life. abby wants to meet the queen and then coincidentally is asked to come to an event where she will see the queen by a princess that she knows for no real reason other than she happened to live in her podunk connecticut town for a while? HUH? stacey grabs the wrong luggage and it has FREAKIN CREMAINS IN IT? NO WAY, DUDE.
-jessi says abfab (absolutely fabulous) is british slang for a good thing. is it actually? I’m pretty just it’s just slang for patsy and edina getting sloshed and acting like this:
-stacey makes a fawlty towers reference. really? even for someone as "cultured" as she, I just can’t imagine a 13-year-old in 1998 making a fawlty towers reference.
-the chaperones from sms are stacey's mom and an english teacher, mr. dougherty. that's too few if you ask me, but whatever. anyway, dougherty is flighty and keeps wandering off and waxing poetic and is just the worst. it’s frustrating to read, and nothing really comes of it. poor mrs. mcgill.
-in london they go to see shenandoah, the musical. but it's about the us civil war. I don't think it ever ran in london, and I can’t imagine it ever would.
-shakespeare is nobody's great-grandparent! he had one grandchild who never had kids. so the whole mal plotline is impossible.
-they see a portrait of susanna hall (shakespeare's daughter) and she looks just like gillian (mal's cousin). really? even if she were susanne hall’s great great great (etc) granddaughter (which I’ve already told you is impossible) then it would be weird for them to look exactly alike. unless they only ever married their siblings, in which case I guess they would look the same but mal would probably have extra fingers or something.
-abby: "(the queen) was escorted by a guy I recognized. Prince Something. I forget. He's been on the news." really? she recognizes the prince, but she doesn’t know his name? looking at the photo, he looks to be the generation of charles, andrew, and edward, but doesn't look anything like them. here’s the photo:
in this FINAL MAIN SERIES SUPER SPECIAL (I’m so close to the end of these books! aaaahhh!) by ghostwriter [a:Peter Lerangis|17216|Peter Lerangis|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1273412599p2/17216.jpg], some of the babysitters go on the sms-hosted trip to london and paris, while the others stay in stoneybrook to work at the playground camp referenced in [b:Mary Anne and the Playground Fight|133755|Mary Anne and the Playground Fight (The Baby-Sitters Club, #120)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386925693s/133755.jpg|128850]. the framing device for the book is that jessi is making a travel journal for mary anne, dawn, and claudia, since they’re stuck in stoneybrook. don’t ask me why mary anne, dawn, and claudia narrate chapters in the travel journal, but whatevs. see the narrator character plotlines before (all bsc members, with one chapter narrated by stacey’s ex boyfriend robert).
character plotlines:
stacey: accidentally took the wrong luggage at the airport and finds that the luggage she took has cremains in it. she can’t decide whether she’s more horrified by the cremains or by having to wear clothes she borrows from other people. turns out the cremains belong to a wwii veteran whose friend was going to scatter them on the beach at normandy, because they were in d day together. stacey helps him out and has a meaningful experience thinking about veterans and how tough they’ve had it.
mal: hangs out with her english cousin gillian who is a writer. finds out she's a descendant of shakespeare due to gillian’s family tree and spends the rest of the book writing (a very mal plotline)
kristy: has a will-they, won't-they thing with a canadian boy, michel. they end up getting lost from their group in paris and spend an afternoon together and bicker so much until they finally kiss.
jessi: goes to see david brailsford’s dance team (from [b:Jessi's Big Break|794934|Jessi's Big Break (The Baby-Sitters Club, #115)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328835549s/794934.jpg|780913]) perform in london. one of their dancers sprains her ankle and the understudy has food poisoning. conveniently enough, they're doing a dance that jessi knows, so they ask her to step in and she does well. see lowlights for my thoughts on this.
abby: victoria kent is supposed to present flowers to the queen and asks abby to stand with her for it. then she steps on the prince's shoe and a photo is taken of it and published in local papers.
robert: jacqui is still obsessed with him (as she has been in [b:Stacey and the Stolen Hearts|809626|Stacey and the Stolen Hearts (Baby-Sitters Club Mystery, #33)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387703761s/809626.jpg|795567] and [b:Stacey’s Ex-Boyfriend|558329|Stacey's Ex-Boyfriend (The Baby-Sitters Club, #119)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387701362s/558329.jpg|2816867]) and being grossly flirty ("we don't have to tell stacey, you know." "about what?" "you know. about us!" ewwwww!) but robert finally is a jerk to her and she backs off.
claudia: (in stoneybrook) works at playground camp. janine works there too and is super controlling towards her. turns out it's because her ex boyfriend jerry, who is also working there, is being a jerk to her, so she bottles up her grumpy feelings and unleashes them unintentionally on claudia. finally, egged on by claud, she stands up to jerry.
dawn: (in stoneybrook) works at playground camp. one day she subs at sunshine gang, a camp for kids with developmental and intellectual disabilities. susan (from [b:Kristy and the Secret of Susan|1382964|Kristy and the Secret of Susan (The Baby-Sitters Club, #32)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388254442s/1382964.jpg|1781098]) is there and has a temple grandin hug machine which freaks dawn out. they don't say temple grandin's name but they reference her specifically.
mary anne: (in stoneybrook) works at playground camp. cokie is bad at her job and mary anne has to pick up the slack. that’s basically it.
highlights:
-alan gray gets stopped by security at the airport for acting suspicious on purpose. this is so pre-9/11. like, post 9/11 he would've been detained for so long as to miss the flight and maybe would’ve still been arrested. but also it’s so alan gray and he’s just so precious.
-they're on a trip with a canadian school: zehava berger junior high. they don’t explicitly stay that it’s a jewish day school, but do they even have to? I go to זהבה ברגר חטיבת ביניים
-the stoneybrook kids say something about how they do things in america and michel says that canada is part of america too and that they live in a country called the united states. BOOM. nobody ever addresses this in anything, but it needs to be addressed. the country is the united states of america. the americas include many countries. it’s super ethnocentric to call the united states "america" when it’s just not.
-when writing my rant below about jessi’s ridiculous coincidental luck, I realized something. one of the dancers sprains her ankle and another has food poisoning. is there any chance jessi gave the understudy some expired tapioca and told the dancer the nearest bathroom was just past the extremely slippery, recently waxed hallway? COULD JESSI HAVE ORCHESTRATED HER OWN DEBUT BY SABOTAGING OTHER DANCERS? she has way more ambition than, like, anyone else in any of these books, so I definitely buy it. now I’m rethinking the conclusion of [b:Jessi and the Dance School Phantom|1426190|Jessi and the Dance School Phantom (The Baby-Sitters Club, #42)|Ann M. Martin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387715993s/1426190.jpg|1416651]...
lowlights/nitpicks:
-the biggest problem with the book is how preposterous and coincidental everything is. it’s like when I’m talking about how jem and the holograms is a fantasy show and it has nothing to do with the fact that jerrica has magical earrings that turn her into the truly outrageous hologram jem, but actually it’s just that jem wins the freakin’ indy 500 the first and only time she ever tries to compete in it, without ever practicing or anything. and how she gets nominated for best actress at the academy awards even though she’s never acted before and is in a crappy cheesy movie. this book is like jem and the holograms, but not in a charming way. jessi conveniently is in the right place at the right time so that when one of the dancers gets hurt and the understudy has food poisoning, jessi gets asked to step in last-minute. and she does so, and she does well? SERIOUSLY? that kind of crap doesn’t happen in real life. abby wants to meet the queen and then coincidentally is asked to come to an event where she will see the queen by a princess that she knows for no real reason other than she happened to live in her podunk connecticut town for a while? HUH? stacey grabs the wrong luggage and it has FREAKIN CREMAINS IN IT? NO WAY, DUDE.
-jessi says abfab (absolutely fabulous) is british slang for a good thing. is it actually? I’m pretty just it’s just slang for patsy and edina getting sloshed and acting like this:
-stacey makes a fawlty towers reference. really? even for someone as "cultured" as she, I just can’t imagine a 13-year-old in 1998 making a fawlty towers reference.
-the chaperones from sms are stacey's mom and an english teacher, mr. dougherty. that's too few if you ask me, but whatever. anyway, dougherty is flighty and keeps wandering off and waxing poetic and is just the worst. it’s frustrating to read, and nothing really comes of it. poor mrs. mcgill.
-in london they go to see shenandoah, the musical. but it's about the us civil war. I don't think it ever ran in london, and I can’t imagine it ever would.
-shakespeare is nobody's great-grandparent! he had one grandchild who never had kids. so the whole mal plotline is impossible.
-they see a portrait of susanna hall (shakespeare's daughter) and she looks just like gillian (mal's cousin). really? even if she were susanne hall’s great great great (etc) granddaughter (which I’ve already told you is impossible) then it would be weird for them to look exactly alike. unless they only ever married their siblings, in which case I guess they would look the same but mal would probably have extra fingers or something.
-abby: "(the queen) was escorted by a guy I recognized. Prince Something. I forget. He's been on the news." really? she recognizes the prince, but she doesn’t know his name? looking at the photo, he looks to be the generation of charles, andrew, and edward, but doesn't look anything like them. here’s the photo:
liannakiwi's review
2.0
(LL)
This was pretty boring for me, but I suppose the target audience would find this book interesting. It was pretty anticlimactic for the final super special.
This was pretty boring for me, but I suppose the target audience would find this book interesting. It was pretty anticlimactic for the final super special.
darkrootscreations's review
3.0
This one was just okay. Quick little stories about each of the members.
I realized from the last one (the two roadtrips across the US, although that one was better) I don't like when they split in two groups.
In this one some of the girls (and Logan) stay in Stoneybrook to run a camp while the others go off to Europe. But even within that I can think of 4 times some of the BSC went off on their own while in London and Paris.
I'm also kind of bummed because this is the last in the Super Specials series so I've now finished them all.
But I did save this as the last book I needed to meet my GR Reading Challenge for this year so in some way I feel the BSC helped me meet my goals. :)
I realized from the last one (the two roadtrips across the US, although that one was better) I don't like when they split in two groups.
In this one some of the girls (and Logan) stay in Stoneybrook to run a camp while the others go off to Europe. But even within that I can think of 4 times some of the BSC went off on their own while in London and Paris.
I'm also kind of bummed because this is the last in the Super Specials series so I've now finished them all.
But I did save this as the last book I needed to meet my GR Reading Challenge for this year so in some way I feel the BSC helped me meet my goals. :)