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Beacon Street Girls #12
Time's Up
For use in schools and libraries only. Katani wants to win a contest for young entrepreneurs, but she also has major school projects to work on and twenty scarves to knit, and Maeve is undermining her efforts by signing up for her rival's tutoring service.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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Annie Bryant
53 books114 followersThe Beacon Street Girls books are inspired by all the preteen girls I've ever known. I wanted to create a world where girls can go to have fun and learn about who they are, while modeling real-life experiences. The first book, Worst Enemies/Best Friends, explores creating and testing friendships, skewed first impressions, and being the new kid at school. In the end, true friendship conquers all. Welcome to the world of the BSG!
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December 2, 2011
In the book times up by Annie Bryant there was friends. The friends had a club the club was call beacon street girls. They have a table at the cafe that they sit at. A girl named Betsy that was joining the same contest as this girl Maeve. Maeves fovorite magazine is teen biz. the plot is that a girl named betsy was joining a contest and maeve was joining the same contest. then maeve was upset because she needed some help and avery was telling her to ask betsy. but betsy was maeves compatition. i think maeve was charming droll and cheerful. she was apart of bsg.i think avery was joyous, noble and delightful. she was apart of bsg. to me charlotte is comicaljubliant and bashful and she is apart fo bsg. betsy to me is flat and she is not a bsg.this writing style is plain. it is plain because i read other books that were like that.
May 27, 2018
Pretty good
October 11, 2024
Katani's journey was great to see from start to finish.
November 6, 2012
Reviewed by Allison Fraclose for TeensReadToo.com
When Katani reads about a contest for young entrepreneurs, sponsored by T-Biz! magazine, she knows that she has a good chance of pulling together a prize-winning entry.
Since she has been dreaming of running her own fashion design and advice business for ages, she's already full of ideas, and it only takes a few moments before she's hit on the idea of knitting scarves to sell. Ms. Pink, the owner of the Think Pink! boutique, even offers to sell Katani's scarves for the breast cancer fundraiser she'll be holding in a week. Katani's sure she can knit the twenty scarves, take care of the paperwork, and get together her business plan by Saturday, when her contest entry is due.
Even though Katani tries to keep the contest a secret, so she can surprise everyone when she wins, she can't help but let word slip to a few people, and, of course, she has to tell her best friends, the Beacon Street Girls. Soon, it turns out that several other people are entering the contest, and fellow BSG Maeve has even signed up for tutoring lessons from one of Katani's rivals! What's worse is that Katani has a book report and a math project both due on top of the contest. Can she really get it all done in time, all on her own?
I've only read a few of the BEACON STREET GIRLS books, and this one threw me off a bit by not being narrated in the first person. Still, I found it as endearing as the others, and true to the characters. We also have a nice little side plot with BSG Charlotte finally going on a date/not-date with Nick Montoya, a chapter definitely worth reading for any BSG fan.
When Katani reads about a contest for young entrepreneurs, sponsored by T-Biz! magazine, she knows that she has a good chance of pulling together a prize-winning entry.
Since she has been dreaming of running her own fashion design and advice business for ages, she's already full of ideas, and it only takes a few moments before she's hit on the idea of knitting scarves to sell. Ms. Pink, the owner of the Think Pink! boutique, even offers to sell Katani's scarves for the breast cancer fundraiser she'll be holding in a week. Katani's sure she can knit the twenty scarves, take care of the paperwork, and get together her business plan by Saturday, when her contest entry is due.
Even though Katani tries to keep the contest a secret, so she can surprise everyone when she wins, she can't help but let word slip to a few people, and, of course, she has to tell her best friends, the Beacon Street Girls. Soon, it turns out that several other people are entering the contest, and fellow BSG Maeve has even signed up for tutoring lessons from one of Katani's rivals! What's worse is that Katani has a book report and a math project both due on top of the contest. Can she really get it all done in time, all on her own?
I've only read a few of the BEACON STREET GIRLS books, and this one threw me off a bit by not being narrated in the first person. Still, I found it as endearing as the others, and true to the characters. We also have a nice little side plot with BSG Charlotte finally going on a date/not-date with Nick Montoya, a chapter definitely worth reading for any BSG fan.
August 17, 2010
This Beacon Street Girl book is officialy one of my favourites from the entire series. It focuses on Katani's dream of being a fashion designer/buisness woman and when Teen Buzz, a magazine, holds a contest for young entrupenuers Katani knows it would make her dream come true. But with school work, riding lessons and dealing with the family, Katani is stuck for time. But she buttered her toast and had to lie in it. This teaches young adults the importance of time managment and how you are only a single human being and you cannot do everything. It takes time and effort to be proud of your work.
September 18, 2008
it was ok. it was disapointing becuz i had been looking forward to the release of the book and not much was read. i could totally relate to the fact that she had too much to do and not enough time (hence the name, time's up). but the tension reminded me of the book when katani and avery were competing for class prez in promises, promises (the 5th book i believe), which i didn't really like. katani was on a whole other planet.
June 17, 2009
This is a good clean series for preteens. I liked the fact that each of the girls come from varied backgrounds. The main character in this book has a sister with autism. One of the other girls has a mother with MS and another girl has a learning disability. Each of the girls has a different talent as well that they are trying to develop. It is a nice clean, uplifting series.
April 20, 2009
cool i love how katani is under all the pressure and breaks free!
March 8, 2011
eh. it was good. Funny :D
November 19, 2011
I really enjoyed this book! It will keep you hooked on.
March 19, 2012
Katani thinks this is a good idea for her because she thinks it will start her career.But with all these things to do with so little time, is Katani in over the top?
April 26, 2013
LOVE. the series!!!
November 19, 2013
This was an inspirational good book. 5 stars. ***** . -Singing off, Emma XoXo...
January 13, 2014
wonderful
January 23, 2016
The BSG series are always fun reads, but this book wasn't that exciting. It seems like Katani is always over-sensitive. Even the Charlotte non-date-date part wasn't terribly interesting.
July 10, 2016
read in 2008
September 11, 2010
I agree but I think it is weird that through 22 books they are still in 7th grade
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