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finesilkflower's review
2.0
Mary Anne flips out when she loses her cat.
She and the club paper the neighborhood with "Lost Cat" flyers. She’s further upset that Logan doesn’t seem to care. After a brief adventure in which the club members fear they are dealing with a ransom kidnapper (it turns out to be a hoax, spurred by the reward offered on the flier), Mary Anne discovers that Logan’s sister Kerry took in the cat because she wants a pet so badly. (Kerry and Logan’s younger brother, Hunter, has a number of allergies, including pet dander.) Mary Anne suspects Logan of knowing all along, but it turns out that he didn’t know, he was just upset about sports stuff.
The book effectively conveys the sudden pain and growing despair of a pet loss, but I’m glad this book occurred before #26 and not after, because it would have seemed just viciously petty. Sure, Mary Anne loves her cat, and it’s nice of the club and the neighborhood kids to show interest, but Mary Anne is overly hurt at the presence of other thoughts in Logan’s head. At the same time, because all the other mystery elements are so clunky and anvilicious, it feels weird that the brusque-Logan runner is such a red herring; we don’t know anything about Logan’s sports situation until he explains it at the end. For a book that hints so heavily at the solution to its mystery, couldn’t it stand to give a little time hinting at the solution to the sub-mystery "What’s up with Logan?"
She and the club paper the neighborhood with "Lost Cat" flyers. She’s further upset that Logan doesn’t seem to care. After a brief adventure in which the club members fear they are dealing with a ransom kidnapper (it turns out to be a hoax, spurred by the reward offered on the flier), Mary Anne discovers that Logan’s sister Kerry took in the cat because she wants a pet so badly. (Kerry and Logan’s younger brother, Hunter, has a number of allergies, including pet dander.) Mary Anne suspects Logan of knowing all along, but it turns out that he didn’t know, he was just upset about sports stuff.
The book effectively conveys the sudden pain and growing despair of a pet loss, but I’m glad this book occurred before #26 and not after, because it would have seemed just viciously petty. Sure, Mary Anne loves her cat, and it’s nice of the club and the neighborhood kids to show interest, but Mary Anne is overly hurt at the presence of other thoughts in Logan’s head. At the same time, because all the other mystery elements are so clunky and anvilicious, it feels weird that the brusque-Logan runner is such a red herring; we don’t know anything about Logan’s sports situation until he explains it at the end. For a book that hints so heavily at the solution to its mystery, couldn’t it stand to give a little time hinting at the solution to the sub-mystery "What’s up with Logan?"
sammah's review
3.0
Mary Anne books are so hit or miss. They're either pretty decent or just total steaming dumpster fires. This one was in the dumpster fire category, honestly. I have never liked the 'kid hides an animal from friends and family trope' and this happens a couple of times in the BSC-verse (notably in New York, New York when Kristy finds a stray dog in Central Park).
Anyway, Logan Bruno is also a sort of horrible person sometimes. He's been pretty consistently dickish in other books, and he was really bad in this one. He could have just been honest about his issue from the get-go instead of snapping and being nasty, but that would be to easy for Logan Bruno.
Anyway, Logan Bruno is also a sort of horrible person sometimes. He's been pretty consistently dickish in other books, and he was really bad in this one. He could have just been honest about his issue from the get-go instead of snapping and being nasty, but that would be to easy for Logan Bruno.
xtinamorse's review
Read my recap on A Year with the BSC via Stoneybrook Forever: https://www.livethemovies.com/bsc-blog/mary-anne-and-the-search-for-tigger
pixieauthoress's review
3.0
Sick days call for comfort reads! I found this book a bit underwhelming. It revolves entirely around Mary Anne's kitten going missing and the babysitting chapters that were tied in weren't terribly relevant. Likewise, Mary Anne and Logan's issues felt like they'd been contrived purely to create more conflict. Although this was written by Ann herself I didn't think this was one of the better BSC books, which was a pity, as Mary Anne is one of my favourite characters. 3*
amyacowan's review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
ssshira's review
2.0
this is first time I've read this book!
mary anne's perpetual kitten, tigger, disappears. the baby-sitters (and the kids they sit!) all go into overdrive trying to find him. meanwhile logan is being a jerk to mary anne. these plotlines resolve themselves in frustrating ways that don't leave me feeling any better. the end.
highlights:
-mini animal rights activists: mary anne is happy that dawn calls tigger a someone, not a something. cats are people too.
-jamie newton calls tigger "pounsive" -- I'm definitely going to use this in the future.
-a really cute perkins girls chapter, where claudia babysits for them and they know way more old songs than she does. they want to sing elvis and claudia notes that she thought his name was elbow presley.
-when logan the jerk tells mary anne she is too sensitive and that she's acting like a girl, mary anne says there's nothing wrong with being sensitive and that she IS a girl. heck yes!
lowlights:
-logan is an unacceptable level of dick in this book. that plotline gets resolved, at least sort of, but it doesn't make me feel any better. he is bummed that he is getting kicked off the baseball team. okay. that makes sense when you think about how preoccupied he's seemed. but that doesn't explain him telling mary anne she's overreacting when she says tigger's disappearance is the worst thing that's happened to her. that doesn't make it better that he calls her sensitive (meaning it as a bad thing) and says she's being such a girl. logan, screw you.
-mary anne says tigger doesn't wear a collar with tags. and she lets him roam free outside. and he's a kitten. I kind of think his getting catnapped is mary anne's own fault.
-the bruno parents only vaguely punish kerry and then they let her get a pet. she's proven that she's responsible enough to keep a pet, by keeping tigger alive and fed and all, but YOU ARE REWARDING HER AWFUL BEHAVIOR. maybe she can take care of another living being, but that doesn't mean she's responsible enough to not bring a furry animal (that her brother is allergic to) into her house, and it doesn't mean that she's responsible enough to not steal someone else's pet. bruno parents, you are bad parents.
kristy's cafeteria food description:
-'"anyone care for some fish eyes and glue?" she asked, holding out her dish of tapioca pudding.'
one claudia outfit:
-"Like a loose blouse with a fake coat of arms on it worn over a very short black skirt. Around her waist, a scarf. On her feet, short black boots. Dangling from her ears, dinosaurs. And her hair might be piled on top of her head and held in place with hairpins that look like seahorses."
one snack in claudia's room:
-double stuf oreos under her bed
mary anne's perpetual kitten, tigger, disappears. the baby-sitters (and the kids they sit!) all go into overdrive trying to find him. meanwhile logan is being a jerk to mary anne. these plotlines resolve themselves in frustrating ways that don't leave me feeling any better. the end.
highlights:
-mini animal rights activists: mary anne is happy that dawn calls tigger a someone, not a something. cats are people too.
-jamie newton calls tigger "pounsive" -- I'm definitely going to use this in the future.
-a really cute perkins girls chapter, where claudia babysits for them and they know way more old songs than she does. they want to sing elvis and claudia notes that she thought his name was elbow presley.
-when logan the jerk tells mary anne she is too sensitive and that she's acting like a girl, mary anne says there's nothing wrong with being sensitive and that she IS a girl. heck yes!
lowlights:
-logan is an unacceptable level of dick in this book. that plotline gets resolved, at least sort of, but it doesn't make me feel any better. he is bummed that he is getting kicked off the baseball team. okay. that makes sense when you think about how preoccupied he's seemed. but that doesn't explain him telling mary anne she's overreacting when she says tigger's disappearance is the worst thing that's happened to her. that doesn't make it better that he calls her sensitive (meaning it as a bad thing) and says she's being such a girl. logan, screw you.
-mary anne says tigger doesn't wear a collar with tags. and she lets him roam free outside. and he's a kitten. I kind of think his getting catnapped is mary anne's own fault.
-the bruno parents only vaguely punish kerry and then they let her get a pet. she's proven that she's responsible enough to keep a pet, by keeping tigger alive and fed and all, but YOU ARE REWARDING HER AWFUL BEHAVIOR. maybe she can take care of another living being, but that doesn't mean she's responsible enough to not bring a furry animal (that her brother is allergic to) into her house, and it doesn't mean that she's responsible enough to not steal someone else's pet. bruno parents, you are bad parents.
kristy's cafeteria food description:
-'"anyone care for some fish eyes and glue?" she asked, holding out her dish of tapioca pudding.'
one claudia outfit:
-"Like a loose blouse with a fake coat of arms on it worn over a very short black skirt. Around her waist, a scarf. On her feet, short black boots. Dangling from her ears, dinosaurs. And her hair might be piled on top of her head and held in place with hairpins that look like seahorses."
one snack in claudia's room:
-double stuf oreos under her bed
liannakiwi's review against another edition
4.0
(LL)
This book does a great jog tackling: honest in relationships, handling missing pets, and teamwork.
This book does a great jog tackling: honest in relationships, handling missing pets, and teamwork.