The Baby-Sitters Club #38: Kristys Mystery Admirer
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I was in a play version of it in 7th grade! Logan -kristy keeps calling stacey and claudia "distant" aka her word for cool. I think her not caring about fashion should mean she doesn't know what hats are VERY distant.
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View all 9 comments. Sep 11, Ciara rated it it was ok Shelves: Jan 04, Wickedlyunique rated it it was amazing. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read this book way back when I was 11 yrs old, and it has stuck with me ever since. One thing I remember fondly about this book was the evolvement of Shannon and Kristy's friendship. I remember reading a BSC book back in the day, and Shannon was absolutely the worst. Anyways, my younger self was terrified that Kristy's love letters were a prank.
I was so happy that Bart had developed a crush on her. Sep 23, Lisa rated it liked it Shelves: Was glad to see The Krushers back in action: Apr 07, Logan Hughes rated it did not like it Shelves: Kristy gets notes from a secret admirer. It turns out that Bart did write the first one, but the rest were knock-offs made by guess who? The weirdest thing about the solution to the mystery is that Bart wrote any at all. I was sure it was going to be a kid the original writer, I mean; the knock-offs were obviously Cokie, since Cokie only appears in a book in which she is a villain.
Major sins commited by this book include: Not even a good one. Kristy and Bart go as lobsters. This is one of the books for which the revised timeline makes sense, since it does seem as though the years are proceeding one after another--it's not like this and Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery are alternate possibilities for eighth-grade Halloween, they both happened. In the same year. Only a year apart. This is where I figure out how old the baby-sitters would be if they aged. Halloween of tenth grade Apr 22, Swankivy rated it it was ok. A boy mystery again??
I kinda liked Kristy most of the time because she wasn't as empty-headed and silly about boys as the rest tended to be, but this time Kristy's got a secret admirer. She's wondering for some of the book whether it's Bart, the guy who coaches Bart's Bashers rivals to her Kristy's Krushers. Despite being opponents, they've been getting along well based on common interests wow, refreshing--people who have something in common like each other?
Lists with This Book. Of all the babysitters, Kristy's the last one anyone would expect to have a secret admirer. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. If I was Kristy I would have gone to the cops. Jan 09, Mabel rated it liked it. It was the perfect beginning for the book. Are you sure you don't want to finish?
So when Kristy starts getting w A boy mystery again?? So when Kristy starts getting weird love notes from a mysterious someone, she's assuming it's him and gets all braggy about it until the notes turn super weird and sound like they could even be death threats. This is where I don't get it.
And she assumes the weird notes are coming from the same person who wrote the nice notes, and starts treating Bart like crap because he might have written the nice ones and now might be writing the freaky ones. She's also got alternate plots of who might want her dead in her head. But the big plot hole I have a problem with is this--the notes DO turn out to be from two different people the nice ones actually from Bart, the mean ones from a girl she embarrassed in a previous book , and yet the nice notes stopped immediately at the time that the mean ones started. But I guess everything's fine because a staged conversation makes the petty mean-note-sending girl admit her responsibility, and Kristy gets to go to a dance with her new softball-coaching boyfriend.
They wear lobster costumes. Jul 16, Rina rated it liked it. Out of not so many BSC books I have read, this is one of the most entertaining ones.
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The story started with a match between Krushers and Bashers and I immediately fell in love with these non-athletic kids. It was a good alternative to the usual book opening of describing the Babysitters Club itself. Despite of obvious storyline yes I know, this is not an adult detective novel , I found the storyline very enjoyable, and I couldn't put down the book till I reached the end. My little bit of disappoin Out of not so many BSC books I have read, this is one of the most entertaining ones.
My little bit of disappointment was when BSC girls decided to give Bart silent treatment when they thought he was the one sending all the creepy letters to Kristy, even before finding any proof regardless of whether he was or was not the sender - I'm not going to spoil the story here.
I would have thought that BSC girls who should be wiser and more mature than any other girls their age would know better than accusing someone without proof. But again, they're a bunch of 13 year olds. So I won't hold it against them! I love Claire's "nofe-air!
Jul 27, Mary Alex rated it it was amazing. This is one of the best Baby Sitters Club books I have ever read.
Probably this is because Kristy actually behaved like a 13 year old girl instead of a 30 year old tyrant of a baby sitting club. I enjoyed all of her scenes with Bart and Shannon and their date to the Halloween Hop was so cute. Mar 06, hannaH rated it it was ok Shelves: Although there is one truly brilliant moment when Shannon says to Kristy, paraphrased "You think your secret admirer is a girl? Why would a girl be writing you love letters?! Cokie was such a bitch. What the hell kind of nickname is that? The girls really are very, very naive.
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Jul 18, Kirstin rated it it was amazing. Ok, Ok, I would understand Claudia having a secret admirer, or even Stacey.. Nov 10, lisa rated it it was ok Shelves: Kristy begins to receive mysterious, romantic letters in the mail, that suddenly turn sinister. Instead of talking it out like an adult, she behaves exactly like a thirteen year old would act, and imagines all kinds of crazy things, such as "Bart must be a maniac.
Things I remember from reading this as a kid: I do remember that Kristy and Bart dressed as lobsters for their Halloween dance, but I thought that happened in a different bo Kristy begins to receive mysterious, romantic letters in the mail, that suddenly turn sinister. I do remember that Kristy and Bart dressed as lobsters for their Halloween dance, but I thought that happened in a different book. Things I've considered since reading this as an adult: Kristy calls Shannon from a hall closet for privacy, and when Shannon complains about this because she can't hear her, Kristy tells her "I'm not coming out of the closet.
Later Kristy tries to convince Shannon that her mystery love notes couldn't be coming from a boy because the envelopes are decorated with stickers and hearts. This looks like it's from a girl," she says, almost hopefully, to Shannon. To which Shannon responds, "A girl who wants to go steady with you? Kristy, grow up," thereby ensuring that Kristy was correct to not want to come out of the closet. Kristy and Bart decide to hold a World Series for their softball teams, and it is so boring to read about.
There is way too much focus on games and practices in this book. I can't decide if Ann M Martin is a big baseball fan, or if she includes detailed softball games in every Kristy book because she wanted to appeal to athletic BSC fans. As an adult I found this book incredibly dull. Even the plot about the very creepy, almost sick notes wasn't that interesting. Clearly Cokie was behind it.
And clearly Cokie has some mental health problems that will probably get worse as she gets older. Jul 11, Julie Decker rated it it was ok. Kristy's getting secret admirer notes and she thinks they might be from Bart--she doesn't really have anyone else to suspect, and he's the natural suspect, considering they both coach softball teams and have been having some positive flirty interaction lately. But then the anonymous notes start to sound threatening, as if the person involved wanted to sweeten her up and then scare her silly. If Bart was behind the sweet notes, how can she face him now that they've taken such a disturbing turn?
Th Kristy's getting secret admirer notes and she thinks they might be from Bart--she doesn't really have anyone else to suspect, and he's the natural suspect, considering they both coach softball teams and have been having some positive flirty interaction lately. The huge plot hole in this one is that Kristy eventually discovers the sweet love notes are not from the same person as the death threats are, and yet the love notes stop appearing exactly at the same time the horrible notes START coming.
And yet when the "mystery" is solved, neither of them had anything to do with each other. Kristy is able to celebrate having a boyfriend now that she can respond to the anonymous notes that came from an actual sweet guy in her life, but the evil notes? They're not taken seriously once the girl who sent them is found out. Even though the messages were deliberately stalking, harassing, threatening messages that suggested she should watch for attempts on her LIFE.
Point a finger and I guess this girl's possible murderous intentions will be exposed and abandoned. Why do these kids who think their lives might be in danger--kids who have written evidence--not tell grown-ups about murder threats? And it rhymes with "Cokie Mason" Kristy starts getting love notes from a secret admirer with sickening sweet poems and heart stickers which she kind of likes and she thinks they are from Bart, so she asks him to the Halloween Hop.
Very forward of her. He says yes, they start hanging "Who is sending Kristy love letters? Except, you know, her liking girls and all. Then the notes turn sinister: Kristy freaks out and goes thru all sorts of scenarios: Bart's a psychopath so she and Shannon both start ignoring him completely , someone is trying to kidnap her because her stepdad is a millionaire even though it would be easier to steal Andrew, Karen or Emily , etc Kristy and the Vampires.
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