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situationnormal's review against another edition
4.0
I'm glad the BSC worked on their communication issues after the previous book, but why do the parents of their charges never listen? Especially when they can trust the BSC to look after their kids almost every single day after school. I did like the hijinks the kids get into in this book (even though the stunt at the end is super scary), though, and the side plot of Jessi and Becca thinking their Aunt Cecelia is getting married has literally nothing to do with anything but it's extra funny after the BSC has participated in about 75 weddings at this point.
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.
finesilkflower's review
3.0
Danielle Roberts, the fourth-grader with leukemia introduced in [b:Jessi's Wish|776140|Jessi's Wish (The Baby-Sitters Club, #48)|Ann M. Martin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1188764042s/776140.jpg|2181748], is in remission, back in school and feeling better than ever. She’s feeling so good that she’s full of energy and ideas and seems to be hurrying to make up for lost mischief-making time. Her stunts--sledding down the basement steps on a mattress and trying to make a diving pool in the standing shower are highlights--grow increasingly dangerous until she accidentally injures Vanessa Pike while attempting to drive a car. Finally, both BSC and Roberts parents agree it’s time to start reining in Danielle and stop giving her special treatment because she was sick so long.
Meanwhile, Stacey has been showing up late to meetings and calling for last-minute replacements at last minute, and we never quite find out what’s up with her, but she does step in in a blaze of responsible, pro-friend-togetherness glory at the end, convincing Danielle’s friends to reconcile with her after the accident.
In a stupid subplot, Jessi and Becca overhear Aunt Cecelia discussing weddings and jump to the conclusion that she’s getting secret married. Of course, she is just going to be in someone else’s wedding.
Timing: Winter (snow on the ground).
Revised Timeline: February of Jessi’s senior year of high school.
Meanwhile, Stacey has been showing up late to meetings and calling for last-minute replacements at last minute, and we never quite find out what’s up with her, but she does step in in a blaze of responsible, pro-friend-togetherness glory at the end, convincing Danielle’s friends to reconcile with her after the accident.
In a stupid subplot, Jessi and Becca overhear Aunt Cecelia discussing weddings and jump to the conclusion that she’s getting secret married. Of course, she is just going to be in someone else’s wedding.
Timing: Winter (snow on the ground).
Revised Timeline: February of Jessi’s senior year of high school.
sammah's review
2.0
Why are Jessi books so boring? It makes me depressed. As a character she's interesting, but the execution just...isn't pleasant. This one was more interesting than others, but still a bit blah. The B-plot with Aunt Cecelia possibly getting married was totally dull, though I am enjoying the lead up to Stacey's upcoming BSC departure.
xtinamorse's review against another edition
Read my recap at A Year with the BSC via Stoneybrook Forever: https://www.livethemovies.com/bsc-blog/jessi-and-the-troublemaker
ssshira's review against another edition
5.0
in this book by ghostwriter [author:Nola Thacker|133114], danielle (the cancer survivor kid from [book:Jessi's Wish|776140]) is back, and she's wilder than ever! seriously though, she has boundless energy and is trying to make up for the time she spent dealing with cancer. she does some things that most kids wouldn't be able to get away with because everyone is just so happy that she's healthy. it's not until she literally crashes her parents car (she is nine) that everyone starts to take it more seriously. in a completely stupid but also hilarious subplot, jessi and becca think that their aunt cecilia is planning a surprise wedding to a guy named mr. major, and they prepare for it only to get horribly embarrassed to discover that cecilia and mr. major are just participating in someone else's wedding. in a subsubplot, stacey is flaking out on bsc responsibilities (foreshadowing [book:Stacey vs. the BSC|794905]).
highlights:
-claudia's race and ethnicity are never stated. nola thacker is the only ghostwriter who ever seems to not mention characters' races.
-aunt cecilia and mr. major plotline is kind of dumb but is mostly just delightful. I particularly like its resolution: jessi and becca decide that they will feel less embarrassed if they can get cecilia and mr. major to fall in love, so they make them a romantic dinner. but cecilia and mr. major talk about how they are good friends who met on the worst blind date ever, and they have no romantic interest in one another. it's really sweet.
-according to this book, silk suits in pastels are popular for brides at second weddings. I don't know if this is true but it's such a funny bsc book-style "factoid"
-it's cold and aunt cecilia tells mr. major he has to go home and jessi narrates, "what about having love to keep her warm, the way the songs all said."
-this jessi quote: "we'll probably never hear the end of this. you know how adults get sometimes."
-the robertses are apologetic for danielle's behavior. how fortunate that they knew it was their fault and didn't blame the babysitters.
-stacey saves the day, convincing danielle's friends to be friends with her again because they actually made bad decisions too. I like this because she's mostly getting depicted as a flaky jerk at this point, and I like a reminder that stacey is a layered person.
-danielle and friends trick or treat at a bsc meeting at the end of the book. it's very cute, and a good representation of how they will still be silly and wild but not do anything dangerous anymore.
lowlights:
-I have studied this cover so much, because danielle is clearly taller than jessi in it (though danielle is 9 and jessi is 11, which would make danielle being taller totally conceivable, but jessi is described as being tall w/ a ballerina's physique). also danielle's torso is CLEARLY on backwards.
-jessi narration: "and now the BSC has two associate members as well." literally BOTH logan and shannon joined before you and mal did, jessi.
-why does charlotte open the shower door that she and danielle and co had filled with water to make a swimming pool? it doesn't make sense. also how did the food colorings that they added to the water not just mix into a brownish mess?
danielle "accidents":
-uses rollerblades indoors
-"sleds" down the basement stairs on a crib mattress
-fills the shower with food coloring-colored water to make a shower swimming pool
-attempts to drive the car down the street but crashes, and vanessa pike hits her head on the windshield and gets stitches.
claudia outfit:
-"She doesn't often wear jeans, but she was wearing them today - only she'd cut patterns in the legs of the jeans (which were major faded) and was wearing leopard tights underneath so that they showed through. She was wearing her black Doc Martens with yellow shoelaces, and she'd used matching shoelaces to pull her hair back into a long, thick braid. Her earrings were a pair she made herself, out of little yellow feathers and black beads. And she was wearing a black and yellow striped flannel shirt buttoned up to her throat, with another pair of shoelaces made into a sort of bow tie."
squirt outfit (for the "wedding"):
-"I scooped Squirt up and put him in his best winter outfit: a white turtleneck shirt and a little navy jacket u that buttoned up the front, with a pair of matching navy elastic-waist baby pants."
in jessi's kid kit:
-puzzle (replaces a united states one with a butterfly one)
-book (replaces one about animal jobs with [book:Bea and Mr. Jones|1200830])
-office supplies: magic markers, pens, erasers, colored pencils, red white and blue paper clips, blunt scissors, tape, a memo pad, rubber bands, stickers, animal stamps, writing paper, and envelopes
in mary anne's kid kit:
-[book:Freckle Juice|37738]
snacks in claudia's room:
-chocolate chip cookies (n.s.)
-oatmeal raisin frookies (n.s.)
-mallomars (n.s.)
-pretzels (n.s.)
-coconut cream puff (n.s.)
-oreos (n.s.)
-gummi worms (n.s.)
-hershey hugs and kisses (n.s.)
highlights:
-claudia's race and ethnicity are never stated. nola thacker is the only ghostwriter who ever seems to not mention characters' races.
-aunt cecilia and mr. major plotline is kind of dumb but is mostly just delightful. I particularly like its resolution: jessi and becca decide that they will feel less embarrassed if they can get cecilia and mr. major to fall in love, so they make them a romantic dinner. but cecilia and mr. major talk about how they are good friends who met on the worst blind date ever, and they have no romantic interest in one another. it's really sweet.
-according to this book, silk suits in pastels are popular for brides at second weddings. I don't know if this is true but it's such a funny bsc book-style "factoid"
-it's cold and aunt cecilia tells mr. major he has to go home and jessi narrates, "what about having love to keep her warm, the way the songs all said."
-this jessi quote: "we'll probably never hear the end of this. you know how adults get sometimes."
-the robertses are apologetic for danielle's behavior. how fortunate that they knew it was their fault and didn't blame the babysitters.
-stacey saves the day, convincing danielle's friends to be friends with her again because they actually made bad decisions too. I like this because she's mostly getting depicted as a flaky jerk at this point, and I like a reminder that stacey is a layered person.
-danielle and friends trick or treat at a bsc meeting at the end of the book. it's very cute, and a good representation of how they will still be silly and wild but not do anything dangerous anymore.
lowlights:
-I have studied this cover so much, because danielle is clearly taller than jessi in it (though danielle is 9 and jessi is 11, which would make danielle being taller totally conceivable, but jessi is described as being tall w/ a ballerina's physique). also danielle's torso is CLEARLY on backwards.
-jessi narration: "and now the BSC has two associate members as well." literally BOTH logan and shannon joined before you and mal did, jessi.
-why does charlotte open the shower door that she and danielle and co had filled with water to make a swimming pool? it doesn't make sense. also how did the food colorings that they added to the water not just mix into a brownish mess?
danielle "accidents":
-uses rollerblades indoors
-"sleds" down the basement stairs on a crib mattress
-fills the shower with food coloring-colored water to make a shower swimming pool
-attempts to drive the car down the street but crashes, and vanessa pike hits her head on the windshield and gets stitches.
claudia outfit:
-"She doesn't often wear jeans, but she was wearing them today - only she'd cut patterns in the legs of the jeans (which were major faded) and was wearing leopard tights underneath so that they showed through. She was wearing her black Doc Martens with yellow shoelaces, and she'd used matching shoelaces to pull her hair back into a long, thick braid. Her earrings were a pair she made herself, out of little yellow feathers and black beads. And she was wearing a black and yellow striped flannel shirt buttoned up to her throat, with another pair of shoelaces made into a sort of bow tie."
squirt outfit (for the "wedding"):
-"I scooped Squirt up and put him in his best winter outfit: a white turtleneck shirt and a little navy jacket u that buttoned up the front, with a pair of matching navy elastic-waist baby pants."
in jessi's kid kit:
-puzzle (replaces a united states one with a butterfly one)
-book (replaces one about animal jobs with [book:Bea and Mr. Jones|1200830])
-office supplies: magic markers, pens, erasers, colored pencils, red white and blue paper clips, blunt scissors, tape, a memo pad, rubber bands, stickers, animal stamps, writing paper, and envelopes
in mary anne's kid kit:
-[book:Freckle Juice|37738]
snacks in claudia's room:
-chocolate chip cookies (n.s.)
-oatmeal raisin frookies (n.s.)
-mallomars (n.s.)
-pretzels (n.s.)
-coconut cream puff (n.s.)
-oreos (n.s.)
-gummi worms (n.s.)
-hershey hugs and kisses (n.s.)
liannakiwi's review against another edition
3.0
(LL)
There were some good lessons in here, but the rest of the book was all over the place. Jessi and the “secret wedding,” Danielle’s mother thinking her dangerous behavior was totally fine, and Stacey being shady towards her friends/ the BSC. I can’t wait for Stacey’s next book so she can treat her friends like crap again for other people. Ugh.
There were some good lessons in here, but the rest of the book was all over the place. Jessi and the “secret wedding,” Danielle’s mother thinking her dangerous behavior was totally fine, and Stacey being shady towards her friends/ the BSC. I can’t wait for Stacey’s next book so she can treat her friends like crap again for other people. Ugh.
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