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The Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever #2
Stacey vs. Claudia (The Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever #2)
Stacey and Claudia never dreamed anything could threaten their best friendship. But when they both fall for the same boy, the biggest rivalry in BSC history begins.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 1999
About the author
Ann M. Martin
1,144 books3,116 followersAnn Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
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Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...
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March 24, 2009
for background on what these books are & why i am writing about them, see my review for kristy's big news.
okay, the plot of this book, told from stacey's perspective, is that there is a new boy at stoneybrook middle school. his name is jeremy. stacey & claudia (best friends, if you will recall) both spot him in the lunch line at the same time & invite him to sit with them at their lunch table. stacey feels strangely drawn to him, despite the fact that she has a 15-year-old artist boyfriend in new york city, ethan. it's been hard for stcey & ethan to make time to see each other lately, & their relationship seems to be faltering. but still. does that mean she has feelings for jeremy?
then claudia confesses to stacey that she has a big crush on jeremy. stacey takes the high road & offers to talk to jeremy & try to determine if he likes claudia back. (this is awesome because it is so exactly like middle school.) she pulls a few strings & orchestrates a "date" for claudia & jeremy to go to the mall together. she is sad doing this, because she wants to get to know jeremy better herself, but she does it to be a friend, & claudia is really excited & tells stacey that she & jeremy had an awesome time on their "date".
then stacey & ethan decide to "cool things off," which stacey interprets as "break up". she's sad, but not that sad, since it was a long time coming (shockingly mature for a 13-year-old--again, i know people 15 years older who don't have that kind of logic). then jeremy stops by stacey's house & admits that he has feelings for HER, not claudia. stacey is psyched, because she realizes she Likes jeremy too, but she tells him she needs to clear it with claudia first. very adult. he understands.
stacey tries to tell claudia, even going so far as to write up a little speech on note cards (it seems like the girls are always doing this--does anyone do this in real life?), but she can't get the words out. claudia always wants to show stacey some sketch she is doing of jeremy, or a bust she is making of his head or whatever. kind of crazy, but...okay. finally it comes out all wrong & claudia's feelings are hurt & they have the most AWESOME fight. stacey bitches at claudia for not bothering to learn how to spell properly & calls her "stupid," & claudia says stacey is a stuck-up snob who needs to get over being from NYC because so are ten million other people. haha! sweet. stacey storms off & tells jeremy she will go out with him. her friendship with claudia is kaput.
a new girl has also moved to stoneybrook--rachel griffin. she used to live in stoneybrook, & kristy, mary anne, & claudia didn't like her. rachel moved to london in fifth grade, before stacey's time, but now she's back & she & stacey are becoming friends. rachel is very understanding of the claudia-jeremy-stacey love triangle & encourages stacey to go for jeremy. stacey is sad to lose claudia as a best friend, but is excited to get to know rachel. even moreso after claudia tells jeremy about ethan & jeremy ditches stacey for a second because he thinks he's a rebound. but eventually he comes back.
DRAMA-RAMA! i liked this book because i related quite a bit to wanting to date someone & having friends freak out on me for it. story of my life. i really have to take stacey's side here, as much as it pains me. if jeremy wasn't into claudia, he's fair game. claudia should grow up & try to be happy for them. stacey probably shouldn't have called her "stupid," but she did try to take claudia's feelings into account, & claudia is just being selfish at this point. AT THIS POINT! soon, in the world of "friends forever," things get more complicated...
okay, the plot of this book, told from stacey's perspective, is that there is a new boy at stoneybrook middle school. his name is jeremy. stacey & claudia (best friends, if you will recall) both spot him in the lunch line at the same time & invite him to sit with them at their lunch table. stacey feels strangely drawn to him, despite the fact that she has a 15-year-old artist boyfriend in new york city, ethan. it's been hard for stcey & ethan to make time to see each other lately, & their relationship seems to be faltering. but still. does that mean she has feelings for jeremy?
then claudia confesses to stacey that she has a big crush on jeremy. stacey takes the high road & offers to talk to jeremy & try to determine if he likes claudia back. (this is awesome because it is so exactly like middle school.) she pulls a few strings & orchestrates a "date" for claudia & jeremy to go to the mall together. she is sad doing this, because she wants to get to know jeremy better herself, but she does it to be a friend, & claudia is really excited & tells stacey that she & jeremy had an awesome time on their "date".
then stacey & ethan decide to "cool things off," which stacey interprets as "break up". she's sad, but not that sad, since it was a long time coming (shockingly mature for a 13-year-old--again, i know people 15 years older who don't have that kind of logic). then jeremy stops by stacey's house & admits that he has feelings for HER, not claudia. stacey is psyched, because she realizes she Likes jeremy too, but she tells him she needs to clear it with claudia first. very adult. he understands.
stacey tries to tell claudia, even going so far as to write up a little speech on note cards (it seems like the girls are always doing this--does anyone do this in real life?), but she can't get the words out. claudia always wants to show stacey some sketch she is doing of jeremy, or a bust she is making of his head or whatever. kind of crazy, but...okay. finally it comes out all wrong & claudia's feelings are hurt & they have the most AWESOME fight. stacey bitches at claudia for not bothering to learn how to spell properly & calls her "stupid," & claudia says stacey is a stuck-up snob who needs to get over being from NYC because so are ten million other people. haha! sweet. stacey storms off & tells jeremy she will go out with him. her friendship with claudia is kaput.
a new girl has also moved to stoneybrook--rachel griffin. she used to live in stoneybrook, & kristy, mary anne, & claudia didn't like her. rachel moved to london in fifth grade, before stacey's time, but now she's back & she & stacey are becoming friends. rachel is very understanding of the claudia-jeremy-stacey love triangle & encourages stacey to go for jeremy. stacey is sad to lose claudia as a best friend, but is excited to get to know rachel. even moreso after claudia tells jeremy about ethan & jeremy ditches stacey for a second because he thinks he's a rebound. but eventually he comes back.
DRAMA-RAMA! i liked this book because i related quite a bit to wanting to date someone & having friends freak out on me for it. story of my life. i really have to take stacey's side here, as much as it pains me. if jeremy wasn't into claudia, he's fair game. claudia should grow up & try to be happy for them. stacey probably shouldn't have called her "stupid," but she did try to take claudia's feelings into account, & claudia is just being selfish at this point. AT THIS POINT! soon, in the world of "friends forever," things get more complicated...
January 17, 2012
This wasn't a great book. It wasn't terrible but if you weren't a BSC fan, you probably wouldn't get much out of it other than two teenage girls fighting over a boy.
January 16, 2020
this is my first time reading this book.
in this book by ghostwriter Suzanne Weyn, stacey and claudia break up because they like the same boy. first, ethan tells stacey he is taking a class during the only time they would generally have to see each other. then he sort of breaks up with her, or at least says they should take a step back for now. a new boy starts at the school, jeremy rudolph, and both stacey and claudia like him. claud asks stacey to help her “get” jeremy, not knowing that stacey likes him too. stacey sucks it up and tries to help her by saying the three of them should go to the movies and then pretending to get sick so it will just be claudia and jeremy. it works out great, at least according to claudia, until jeremy shows up at stacey’s house the next day and says he doesn’t like claudia like that and asks stacey out. he asks stacey to tell claudia about it (see lowlights - I seriously hate jeremy a lot, as you will find out soon) and when she does, claudia is understandably upset. she thinks jeremy actually like-liked her and that stacey cast her wiles upon him or something. this drama could probably have been avoided if jeremy had been the one to break it to claudia in the first place. anyway, stacey and jeremy go out but jeremy is upset because claudia had told him that stacey had a boyfriend, ethan. stacey confronts claud about it and and it turns into a much much bigger fight (see highlights for the incredibly harsh things s+c say to each other). oh and at some point ethan shows up with flowers trying to win stacey back but it’s too late because now she’s crushing on jeremy. meanwhile, another new character is introduced (what is this, faith, hope & trick?), rachel griffin. apparently she went to school with kristy, mary anne, and claudia before stacey moved to town and they all hated her. but she and stacey become friends, because rachel lived in london for the last few years so they bond over being sophistamacated grown women types from the windy apple or something.
highlights:
-stacey ponders whether you're supposed to be able to notice cute guys if you're truly into the person you're dating when she and mary anne are noticing the new cute boy (jeremy). and then stacey justifies it and says that ethan and logan probably notice other girls, but then both she and mary anne. are bummed out and pretend to themselves that they believe their boyfriends don't think about other girls. lol.
-stacey thinks "maybe all guys from olympia were cooler than the ones in stoneybrook." lol.
-claud says rachel is like lucy van pelt, helga pataki, and angelica pickles rolled up into one. aside from lucy, who is pretty timeless, this statement hilariously dates this book as late 90s.
-some of the moments in the fight are SO HARSH I LOVE IT. stacey is so mad that she calls claud brainless and says, "what else would you call someone who can't even spell, who was held back a grade?" claud says stacey is stuck up and acts like she's special because she comes from nyc even though 10 million people live there. stacey says claud's art isn't that great. claud calls stacey a big liar and stacey says claud is a big loser: "what are you going to do? follow jeremy around forever and try to break up his romances? even if you do, it won't matter. he will never want to date you." WOW.
lowlights/nitpicks:
-jeremy is a scumbag. what else do you call a guy who goes on a date with a girl, decides he only likes her as a friend, and asks her best friend out the following day? AND THEN AS IF THAT WEREN’T BAD ENOUGH, he makes the friend he is dating dump the other girl on his behalf. how in the world do stacey and claudia let themselves get swept up into drama that mostly destroys their friendship because of some jerky jerkface?
outfits
claudia:
-"[Claudia] was wearing bright yellow tights with black stripes under a short tie-dyed jumper and long-sleeved neon-pink T-shirt [with] ankle-high vinyl boots."
rachel:
-"Her brown hair was pulled back into a French braid and she wore a short denim skirt under a soft bright yellow sweater."
stacey:
-"The blue thermal-knit shirt with the row of small white buttons up the front was a good choice...It was great with jeans." With the look, Stacey also wears black ankle boots and a French braid, with "a touch of mascara and some berry-colored lipstick" and Rachel's "dangly blue-and-silver earrings."
jeremy:
-"He wore an open-collared blue denim shirt over a bright white T-shirt. His black jeans were neat."
snacks in claudia’s room
-ring-dings (n.s.)
-potato chips under her bed
-carrots and dip (n.s.)
in this book by ghostwriter Suzanne Weyn, stacey and claudia break up because they like the same boy. first, ethan tells stacey he is taking a class during the only time they would generally have to see each other. then he sort of breaks up with her, or at least says they should take a step back for now. a new boy starts at the school, jeremy rudolph, and both stacey and claudia like him. claud asks stacey to help her “get” jeremy, not knowing that stacey likes him too. stacey sucks it up and tries to help her by saying the three of them should go to the movies and then pretending to get sick so it will just be claudia and jeremy. it works out great, at least according to claudia, until jeremy shows up at stacey’s house the next day and says he doesn’t like claudia like that and asks stacey out. he asks stacey to tell claudia about it (see lowlights - I seriously hate jeremy a lot, as you will find out soon) and when she does, claudia is understandably upset. she thinks jeremy actually like-liked her and that stacey cast her wiles upon him or something. this drama could probably have been avoided if jeremy had been the one to break it to claudia in the first place. anyway, stacey and jeremy go out but jeremy is upset because claudia had told him that stacey had a boyfriend, ethan. stacey confronts claud about it and and it turns into a much much bigger fight (see highlights for the incredibly harsh things s+c say to each other). oh and at some point ethan shows up with flowers trying to win stacey back but it’s too late because now she’s crushing on jeremy. meanwhile, another new character is introduced (what is this, faith, hope & trick?), rachel griffin. apparently she went to school with kristy, mary anne, and claudia before stacey moved to town and they all hated her. but she and stacey become friends, because rachel lived in london for the last few years so they bond over being sophistamacated grown women types from the windy apple or something.
highlights:
-stacey ponders whether you're supposed to be able to notice cute guys if you're truly into the person you're dating when she and mary anne are noticing the new cute boy (jeremy). and then stacey justifies it and says that ethan and logan probably notice other girls, but then both she and mary anne. are bummed out and pretend to themselves that they believe their boyfriends don't think about other girls. lol.
-stacey thinks "maybe all guys from olympia were cooler than the ones in stoneybrook." lol.
-claud says rachel is like lucy van pelt, helga pataki, and angelica pickles rolled up into one. aside from lucy, who is pretty timeless, this statement hilariously dates this book as late 90s.
-some of the moments in the fight are SO HARSH I LOVE IT. stacey is so mad that she calls claud brainless and says, "what else would you call someone who can't even spell, who was held back a grade?" claud says stacey is stuck up and acts like she's special because she comes from nyc even though 10 million people live there. stacey says claud's art isn't that great. claud calls stacey a big liar and stacey says claud is a big loser: "what are you going to do? follow jeremy around forever and try to break up his romances? even if you do, it won't matter. he will never want to date you." WOW.
lowlights/nitpicks:
-jeremy is a scumbag. what else do you call a guy who goes on a date with a girl, decides he only likes her as a friend, and asks her best friend out the following day? AND THEN AS IF THAT WEREN’T BAD ENOUGH, he makes the friend he is dating dump the other girl on his behalf. how in the world do stacey and claudia let themselves get swept up into drama that mostly destroys their friendship because of some jerky jerkface?
outfits
claudia:
-"[Claudia] was wearing bright yellow tights with black stripes under a short tie-dyed jumper and long-sleeved neon-pink T-shirt [with] ankle-high vinyl boots."
rachel:
-"Her brown hair was pulled back into a French braid and she wore a short denim skirt under a soft bright yellow sweater."
stacey:
-"The blue thermal-knit shirt with the row of small white buttons up the front was a good choice...It was great with jeans." With the look, Stacey also wears black ankle boots and a French braid, with "a touch of mascara and some berry-colored lipstick" and Rachel's "dangly blue-and-silver earrings."
jeremy:
-"He wore an open-collared blue denim shirt over a bright white T-shirt. His black jeans were neat."
snacks in claudia’s room
-ring-dings (n.s.)
-potato chips under her bed
-carrots and dip (n.s.)
February 13, 2018
Ah, the infamous Stacey vs. Claudia feud that lasted almost the entire Friends Forever series. While it was certainly realistic that two boy-crazy friends would eventually fall for the same guy (frankly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner), it still made me a little sad.
It's funny, when I first read this series I actually read book 4 first, so I was totally on Claudia's side and thought Stacey legitimately stole her boyfriend. Then I finally read this one and realized that was not at all what happened, and switched to Stacey's side. Obviously re-reading it now as an adult I realize that neither girl is "right", but middle schoolers are nothing if not dramatic.
Side note: it kind of weirds me out that the cover models on these books actually LOOK 13. It made it much easier to believe in their wacky adventures, numerous trips around the world, and "famous" detective work when the old covers showed them looking like mini-adults.
It's funny, when I first read this series I actually read book 4 first, so I was totally on Claudia's side and thought Stacey legitimately stole her boyfriend. Then I finally read this one and realized that was not at all what happened, and switched to Stacey's side. Obviously re-reading it now as an adult I realize that neither girl is "right", but middle schoolers are nothing if not dramatic.
Side note: it kind of weirds me out that the cover models on these books actually LOOK 13. It made it much easier to believe in their wacky adventures, numerous trips around the world, and "famous" detective work when the old covers showed them looking like mini-adults.
February 21, 2022
I actually liked this book a lot more than I thought I would. I ended up seeing a lot of parallels in this book with several irl situations of mine so maybe that’s why I liked it, as I felt I could relate it somehow to my life.
Also, Rachel >>>>> (I actually really liked her character)
ALSO. I like Abby. A lot. She had so much potential and I wish she would have been introduced earlier in the regular series as I actually liked her a lot more than like…. Mallory or Jessi.
Oh, and, what the heck was this ending? You mean to tell me I have to read another book in this series to find out how Claudia and Stacey become friends again? (This is half a joke- I do sort of like this series but I also thought their fight would be resolved by the end. I stand corrected.)
Also, Rachel >>>>> (I actually really liked her character)
ALSO. I like Abby. A lot. She had so much potential and I wish she would have been introduced earlier in the regular series as I actually liked her a lot more than like…. Mallory or Jessi.
Oh, and, what the heck was this ending? You mean to tell me I have to read another book in this series to find out how Claudia and Stacey become friends again? (This is half a joke- I do sort of like this series but I also thought their fight would be resolved by the end. I stand corrected.)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 31, 2025
Say it isn't so? Stacey and Claudia are fighting? And over a boy? Who could've seen this coming? Well pretty much anyone really. The two most boy crazy members of the BSC both fall in love with the new boy Jeremy. Stacey already has Ethan so she lets Claudia have him until she and Ethan break up and Jeremy says he really wants to date Stacey not Claudia. Ouch. It was a tough read seeing two good friends torn apart by a guy, but also a tale as old a time. I'm sure I would've been angry if I'd read this as a teen but the adult me was happy that those angst filled times were long gone for me. I am interested in seeing the story from Claudia's side though which is a couple books away. Also Mary Anne hints she's about to dump Logan's ass which is the next book so there's that to look forward too.
November 8, 2022
Stacey felt very un-Stacey.
January 24, 2024
Considering what crappy friends the BSC usually are to each other, and that Stacey and Claudia are both boy-crazy, it's a little surprising that they haven't fought over a love interest yet. I know most BSC fans who have read the Friends Forever series hate the Stacey/Claudia fight, but to be perfectly honest, I kind of like it. Again, it's totally on-brand for them to fight over a guy (even if they said some totally heinous things to each other), but mostly I like it because it forces them to befriend other people. (I've said it before, I like when the girls make non-Club friends.) So even though it sucks seeing one of the best BSC BFF pairs split up, it's nice to get to know some other characters.
December 31, 2023
“I knew, from watching public TV, that BBC meant British Broadcasting Corporation”, this line was the highlight of the book. Boy crazy Stacey and Claudia finally fall for the same guy and get into a massive fight over it. Both girls are in the wrong but this definitely seemed realistic for 13 year olds. In my opinion, the whole Friends Forever series is like fan fiction, taking the beloved characters from the Babysitters Club and putting them in situations that preteen/early teenagers actually face, but without the campy babysitting we know and love. These books will never be as good as the original series but I understand why they were made.
December 3, 2017
So far? I'm really digging these! They're just so much better than the end of the regular series was. I'm glad it might go out on a somewhat high note! This one was very, very middle school haha.
Stacey ends up breaking it off with Ethan, and she and Claudia like the same guy. Que the giant fight when he likes Stacey and not Claudia. They have a very nasty argument, wherein Stacey calls Claudia dumb, and damn! It's on!
GIVE ME MORE OF THIS DRAMA PLEASE!
Stacey ends up breaking it off with Ethan, and she and Claudia like the same guy. Que the giant fight when he likes Stacey and not Claudia. They have a very nasty argument, wherein Stacey calls Claudia dumb, and damn! It's on!
GIVE ME MORE OF THIS DRAMA PLEASE!
June 9, 2023
Ahh both girls will likely look back on this as adults and feel terrible that they let a guy get between them so easily. And such a meh guy too, TBH, at least from an adult POV.
Still, these girls are 13 and I remember how big and momentous each big love felt when I was a teen, so I mostly just sympathize with them and want to reassure them this snag in their friendship will eventually pass.
Still, these girls are 13 and I remember how big and momentous each big love felt when I was a teen, so I mostly just sympathize with them and want to reassure them this snag in their friendship will eventually pass.
April 7, 2022
I thought it was OK, though Claudia was being really stupid about the whole thing.
June 30, 2024
Nostalgia read.
July 26, 2024
Revisited this recently. The series is still solid comfort reading for me as an adult.
October 2, 2025
Claudia and Stacey are my two favorites so I haaaate that them fighting is a recurring plotline, but, well...teenage girls I guess.
November 1, 2013
Book the Second: In which Stacey and Caludia like the same boy. Okay, WHY has it taken this long for something like this to happen? They're the same age, in the same school, around the same kids. And they're both boy-crazy as hell. Seems something like this would have happened sooner. Oh well. This kind of action would be totally weird if it was interrupted with a random lame babysitting plot. So Caludia basically calls dibs on dude and Stace-a-lita tries to be a good pal and not steal the kid away. Bad news, CK: Dude friendzoned you and is after Stace. Naturally, CK doesn't take this lightly and accuses Stace of plotting against her, basically. They fight. It's big. And unlike the regular series, things are not hunky-dory at the end.
Side note: Though I like that the cover models now actually look like 13 year olds, CK looks like a dip here. And I'm still a little disappointed that they're all real and stuff. You get used to Hodges, you know? C'mon! Stace should look like a 25 year old! MA should look like a middle-aged housewife! K-Dawg should look like K. Ron the Horrifying! Bah!
Side note: Though I like that the cover models now actually look like 13 year olds, CK looks like a dip here. And I'm still a little disappointed that they're all real and stuff. You get used to Hodges, you know? C'mon! Stace should look like a 25 year old! MA should look like a middle-aged housewife! K-Dawg should look like K. Ron the Horrifying! Bah!
January 22, 2010
BSC fight! BSC fight! Weren't BSC fights the only reason we read the books?
So Stacey's found a new boy, as usual. And Claudia likes said boy. And then BSC FIGHT SMACKDOWN time. What I found unusual was that Stacey and Ethan never truly break up, something Stacey seemingly forgets when she starts to date Jeremy... until Ethan comes along, of course, and asks about it. Furthermore, just how easy is it for a fifteen-year-old boy to catch a train from New York to Connecticut? And how can he work in a seemingly upper class art gallery?
Of course, this is Stoneybrook and Ann M. Martin (or in this case, Suzanne Weyn), so I shouldn't even be asking these questions.
I enjoy the Friends Forever series because they actually deal with character interactions. There's no forced baby-sitting chapters, and no horrendous Chapter Twos that are so familiar in the BSC world.
And finally... BSC fight!
So Stacey's found a new boy, as usual. And Claudia likes said boy. And then BSC FIGHT SMACKDOWN time. What I found unusual was that Stacey and Ethan never truly break up, something Stacey seemingly forgets when she starts to date Jeremy... until Ethan comes along, of course, and asks about it. Furthermore, just how easy is it for a fifteen-year-old boy to catch a train from New York to Connecticut? And how can he work in a seemingly upper class art gallery?
Of course, this is Stoneybrook and Ann M. Martin (or in this case, Suzanne Weyn), so I shouldn't even be asking these questions.
I enjoy the Friends Forever series because they actually deal with character interactions. There's no forced baby-sitting chapters, and no horrendous Chapter Twos that are so familiar in the BSC world.
And finally... BSC fight!
June 1, 2013
Fantastic books for young girls getting into reading!! Great stories about friendship and life lessons. The characters deal with all sorts of situations and often find responsible solutions to problems.
I loved this series growing up and wanted to start my own babysitting business with friends. Great lessons in entrepreneurship for tweens.
The books may be dated with out references to modern technology but the story stands and lessons are still relevant.
Awesome books that girls will love! And the series grows with them! Terrific Author!
I loved this series growing up and wanted to start my own babysitting business with friends. Great lessons in entrepreneurship for tweens.
The books may be dated with out references to modern technology but the story stands and lessons are still relevant.
Awesome books that girls will love! And the series grows with them! Terrific Author!
April 25, 2024
Woof, this one brought back all kinds of bad teenage memories. But seriously, I can't believe two boy-crazy friends liking the same boy hasn't happened earlier for Stacey and Claudia. What took so long?
April 29, 2009
*gasp*! Stacey and Claudia fight... and don't make up by the end of the book! o.O Kind of wrong.
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July 28, 2011Contray to what some people think these are not rash.
May 18, 2013
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February 23, 2008
didn't like these books much.
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May 14, 2018Stacey vs. Claudia
PLOT: Stacey and her boyfriend Ethan are having problems when he starts to make more time for his art. This causes her to become attracted to the new guy at school Jeremy. Who her best friend Claudia also has her eyes on. Stacy does her best to push the two together, but Jeremy sees Claudia as a friend and wants to date Stacey. The two fight when Stacey confesses the truth to Claudia whose hurt over what she sees as a betrayal. During all this, Stacey meets a new friend -Racheal-who moved away in the fifth grade and didn't get along so hot with her other friend's back then.
MY THOUGHTS:
*It's NEVER a good sign in a relationship with your boyfriend starts putting his other interest before you *ALL* the time!
*Stacey should have given Ethan clarity instead of trying to avoid all these calls.
*Just like she should have been honest with Claudia upfront about liking Ethan. I don't honestly know though if this would have made things better, but at least it wouldn't have looked like she went behind her back.
*It's just a "lil" bit creepy and obsessive to be sculpting molds of a guy's head that you only *think* likes you. What if Jeremy would have walked into the art room?
*I think Stacey used Jeremy as an excuse to move on from Ethan. Did she or did she not seem to get over him a little too quickly?
*And then who shows up at someone's house like that without checking with them. Like Ethan found out they might not be the one that ends up surprised.
*It's kind of strange to read the newer versions without the babysitting stuff being the focus and cut right to the interesting parts.
*I did think that Rachel would not have changed and was trying to help Stacey get Jeremy to still mess with Claudia, but she really did seem to have changed and not care about the old rivalry. I guess she's matured now that she's been in London for 3 years.
*And yes I agree with Stacey. It's a little annoying that Claudia is in the 8th grade and still can't spell simple words, but a little stuck up for saying it makes *her* look bad. Especially if Claudia has a learning disability which I don't remember them ever saying if she was or was not dyslexic. They seem to just think she's lazy.
RATING: 7. I give this book a 7 because I was once in this position and know what it's like to fall out with a friend over having feelings for the same guy and let me tell you it is NOTHING NICE! I can't really fault Stacey TOO much because she did try to be a friend and put her feelings aside and try to help her out. If she would have been honest would Claudia and she have laughed about it and each said: "No you take him?" Or whoever gets him the other would have promised to understand and be cool with it? Stacey couldn't at the time so either way she got the raw end of the stick. It wasn't really her fault that Ethan choose her and I thought Claudia was low-down for trying to be vindictive. I know it hurt but what she did was COLD and uncalled for.
PLOT: Stacey and her boyfriend Ethan are having problems when he starts to make more time for his art. This causes her to become attracted to the new guy at school Jeremy. Who her best friend Claudia also has her eyes on. Stacy does her best to push the two together, but Jeremy sees Claudia as a friend and wants to date Stacey. The two fight when Stacey confesses the truth to Claudia whose hurt over what she sees as a betrayal. During all this, Stacey meets a new friend -Racheal-who moved away in the fifth grade and didn't get along so hot with her other friend's back then.
MY THOUGHTS:
*It's NEVER a good sign in a relationship with your boyfriend starts putting his other interest before you *ALL* the time!
*Stacey should have given Ethan clarity instead of trying to avoid all these calls.
*Just like she should have been honest with Claudia upfront about liking Ethan. I don't honestly know though if this would have made things better, but at least it wouldn't have looked like she went behind her back.
*It's just a "lil" bit creepy and obsessive to be sculpting molds of a guy's head that you only *think* likes you. What if Jeremy would have walked into the art room?
*I think Stacey used Jeremy as an excuse to move on from Ethan. Did she or did she not seem to get over him a little too quickly?
*And then who shows up at someone's house like that without checking with them. Like Ethan found out they might not be the one that ends up surprised.
*It's kind of strange to read the newer versions without the babysitting stuff being the focus and cut right to the interesting parts.
*I did think that Rachel would not have changed and was trying to help Stacey get Jeremy to still mess with Claudia, but she really did seem to have changed and not care about the old rivalry. I guess she's matured now that she's been in London for 3 years.
*And yes I agree with Stacey. It's a little annoying that Claudia is in the 8th grade and still can't spell simple words, but a little stuck up for saying it makes *her* look bad. Especially if Claudia has a learning disability which I don't remember them ever saying if she was or was not dyslexic. They seem to just think she's lazy.
RATING: 7. I give this book a 7 because I was once in this position and know what it's like to fall out with a friend over having feelings for the same guy and let me tell you it is NOTHING NICE! I can't really fault Stacey TOO much because she did try to be a friend and put her feelings aside and try to help her out. If she would have been honest would Claudia and she have laughed about it and each said: "No you take him?" Or whoever gets him the other would have promised to understand and be cool with it? Stacey couldn't at the time so either way she got the raw end of the stick. It wasn't really her fault that Ethan choose her and I thought Claudia was low-down for trying to be vindictive. I know it hurt but what she did was COLD and uncalled for.
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