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At a Fabulous Five meeting that Sunday, Katie says that she and her mom played Monopoly over the weekend. Jana went bowling with her mom and stepdad and had a lot of fun. Beth says her older siblings Brittany and Brian and her sister Alicia are whining over not being able to watch TV. Katie then says that the Fab Five need to find spies- girls they are friends with- to watch who Laura and her friends are talking to about breaking the contract, so that the Fab Five can convince those kids not to.
Jana bets that Dakeisha, and their other friends Mandy, Alexis and Melinda will agree to be spies for the Fabulous Five. Two girls named Elizabeth and Lisa come up to Katie whining over not being able to watch TV all weekend. Lisa says her friggin parents are all pissy because they want to watch the news and other programs, so they are still watching TV and not supporting Lisa. Lisa is not convinced. Jana then tells Katie that Randy and the other guys had a great time launching rockets, and Tony joined them. He signed the TV turnoff contract! Clark asks the kids in homeroom what they did besides watch TV.
Kids mentioned reading books, the rocket launching, and counting money they have saved.
Clark praises the kids participating in the turnoff. At Bumpers, Dakeisha says she heard that Laura and her friends are saying they will watch TV shows for kids for fifty cents an hour and will tell kids what is going on with their favorite TV shows. God, Laura is almost more devious than your average Unicorn Club member! Bell know who is cheating so that Wakeman fails.
Katie tells her mom after school that there are parents refusing to participate with the kids in the TV turnoff and Willie is steamed- time f or another article! The next day at school, Melinda tells the Fab Five that shse made a really yummy fudge cake, and Heather Clark is writing a book. Instead of homework that night, Katie writes a list of fun things kids can do instead of watching TV, like making beaded jewelry and taking pictures of friends and putting them in a collage. Then Jana calls Katie and says that Laura is going to have a TV watching party on Saturday and a lot of kids are planning to attend!
Katie hopes this plan works! Katie gets Lisa to go by saying the boy she likes, Bill Soliday, will be going. Katie and her friends do get some kids to agree to their plans. Beth had her interview with Jack and it went great, by the way. Parents thought the school talked Willie into writing the article. Bell knows this is all for a good cause.
I thought earlier that Christie was dating Jon Smith, but I guess not. I know she had been! Well, tons of the kids tell Katie this was a great idea, and they are having tons of fun. Then a bunch of boys with Branford Jr High letter jackets show up at the park- wait, kids can letter in sports in junior high?
The Branford boys start taunting the Wakeman kids but then Melanie and Beth spot some friendly Branford High cheerleaders to try to stop the potential violence. Lisa then says that her parents were upset by the article written by Willie at first, but they got to thinking and figured if other people can give up TV so can they, and now both parents are reading great books. Miss Simone even says a lot of parents called back to apologize about being upset before and bunches of kids tell Katie they feel closer to their families. Bell then announces the results of the TV turnoff, and how the kids fared vs Branford.
Katie feels all warm and fuzzy inside.
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The end of the book is the usual chapter introducing the next book- Christie is upset that kids make fun of her for being smart. Sign up to win! What did Shawnie think- that her parents would let her go to weekend trips to NYC with the dude, or get a honeymoon suite at the Poconos???
Shawnie also has to come straight home and complete her homework, so Shawnie sneaks off to Bumpers to hang out with Katie and the rest of the Fab Five instead of going home and doing her homework straightaway. Well, Katie feels extremely bad for Shawnie, and Katie is all about justice for all. Tony finally gets Katie to go to a movie with him Friday night, and Katie gets Tony to help organize a march for hunger. Pendergast who are really upset that Shawnie is missing. Shawnie then agrees to go home and insists that Willie not drive her home. Well, Willie and Katie assume that Shawnie is back with her parents and get an extra large pizza for dinner.
Katie hears sounds in the basement after- and Shawnie is in the basement!!!! Well, Willie calls Mrs. Shawnie also says she has to come home straight from school because her parents worry about her always being alone in the house while they work so her mom calls every hour on the hour to be sure Shawnie is home safe. And Shawnie really did bump into a closet door.
And Tony kisses Katie and they are totes an official couple now. Next- The Gymnasts First Date. I hope to get that recap in by Sunday. I also have a few Unicorn Club books that I want to read and recap for you all! They are mostly going over which kids they will meet on the first day of 7th grade, and what to expect and remember about junior high school. Shane Arrington, according to Melanie, is a hottie who owns a lizard. Katie is not really believing that a kid owns a lizard. Christie is excited to meet Jon Smith, whose mom has a juicy daytime talk show and his dad is the sports director of the local TV station.
Katie hears that this girl from Copper Beach elementary, Whitney Larkin, is supposed to be in 6th grade but because of her genius IQ she is skipping into 7th grade. Laura has a group called the Fabulous Foursome and apparently the girls in the group have to do whatever Laura says or she throws them out of the club!! They also note not to ask any ninth graders for directions. Jana talks about how at Mark Twain elementary, the Fabulous Five had their own spot by the fence where the girls could have privacy and talk. Beth suggests that they go find a spot like that at Wakeman Jr High so the girls will know they will have a private spot to talk at their new school as well.
So the Fab Five heads off to Wakeman, and the spot they find is in the front left corner at the grounds. One girl is a tall blonde with a long braid. Melanie says the blonde with the braid has to be Laura McCall. Laura and her friends walk off, so the Fab Five can now claim their spot! Jana is worried about where Laura heard a rumor that Beth was a show off. So Jana wore a blue and white striped shirt and a denim skirt, and she is worried that no one else will wear a denim skirt. She is relieved that Melanie also wore a denim skirt, but hardly anyone else has a denim skirt.
Jana thinks to herself that since her diary was read by others in sixth grade, Taffy has been a nicer person. Curtis Trowbridge, the biggest nerd at Mark Twain Elementary, is also in their homeroom and so is some kid Clarence Marshall who almost got held back in sixth grade. I say Whitney Larkin should tutor Clarence! The girls also learn that Laura McCall, the girl with short dark hair , and the other blonde are also in their homeroom, and Christie says to Jana that the last thing they need is that bunch in their homeroom!
Neil is the homeroom teacher- dreamy Mr. Jana is so distracted that Mr. Jana and Christie get excited when the handbooks are passed out because of the long list of activities that Wakeman Jr High offers. Christie and Jana then bet that Laura and her cronies will want to try out for all of the same activities that the Fabulous Five do in order to try the outdo the Fab Five, but Jana says she will NEVER allow that to happen!
At lunch, the girls talk about the difficulties of switching classes and trying to get around Wakeman Jr High. Melanie is all excited that Shane Arrington is in one of her classes, and says he looks just like River Phoenix.
Katie says the girl next to her in homeroom knows Laura McCall and the rest of the foursome, and the girl said Laura McCall is really obnoxious. The girl also has news on the others- Tammy Lucero, the short, dark haired gal, is cute and bubbly but also a terrible gossip. Beth looks worried, and Jana says she hopes Beth knows she can talk to Jana about anything.
Beth runs away from Jana at that point, and Jana is stunned. Jana wonders what is wrong with Beth, and hopes their friendship is not ruined because Beth is her best friend in the world. All that happens for the rest of the school day is that Jana has some more classes with Funny, Melanie and Jana briefly talk to Shane Arrington and find out that he does have a pet iguana, and Jana sees who Whitney Larkin is. Jana wonders, after getting off the phone with Melanie, if Laura and Funny were arguing over Funny being friendly with Jana.
Jana is not sure about cheerleading, but she definitely wants to try out for yearbook, and so do Katie and Christie. Katie says that there has to be a seventh grade editor job, and photographer positions that the girls can do for yearbook. Jana gets to English, and sees that Funny is in her class and has already saved her a seat. Miss Dickinson is their teacher and she is young but dresses really old fashioned. Jana and Funny pass notes during class, and Jana tries hard not to laugh out loud at things Funny writes in the notes during class. Funny then writes that she wants to try out for yearbook and wonders if Jana wants to try to be a seventh grade co-editor with Funny.
Jana wonders how the rest of the Fabulous Five would react if they found out that Jana would try out for seventh grade co-editor with a member of the Fantastic Foursome! Funny also tells Jana to think of being seventh grade co-editors. Jana then sees Beth at their special spot and sees that Beth is crying.
Jana goes to talk to Beth, and Beth yells at Jana to go away and leave Beth alone!
Jana and Funny walk home together after school. Funny tells Jana that she is lucky because Mark Twain Elementary has sooo many cute boys. Jana asks Funny who she finds cute. Funny mentions a dark haired boy named Randy and Jana is like whoa girl he is mine!! Christie and Katie accuse Jana of dissing the Fab Five and Jana says no she is still their friends but Funny is a new friend and Christie and Katie tell Jana well what about what we heard about Funny?
By the way, I do like that the Fab Five mothers seem to be a lot more involved in the lives of their kids than in say, Sweet Valley High world, and the girls often go to their parents with problems- unlike say the BSC girls!!! Randy Kirwan then calls, and says that he may try out for football, and if Jana goes to the movies and bumpers Friday night, Randy will see her then. Jana feels a little better after Randy called.
When Funny and Jana get to school, everyone is staring and staring at them. Jana tells Funny to mention something funny so that they start to laugh and then they can just run into the school. Jana thinks that at lunch she has to reassure the others how much she likes them, because she does not want to lose them as friends- they are supposed to stick together through thick and thin!
But at lunch, Funny calls Jana over to sit with Funny at lunch. Jana never gets to talk to the members of the Fab Five at lunch because Funny sticks to her like glu. Jana tries to talk to Christie and Katie at history class but they both ignore her attempts. Jana then decides to write letters to each girl and sticks them in each locker saying that there is an emergency meeting of the fabulous five after school and each girl BETTER be there!
After school, Jana is really nervous. Katie, Christie and Melanie do show up, but not Beth. Melanie springs up to hug Jana, spilling soda that was on the table in the process, and the girls all start hugging and crying. The girls vow to find Beth at school the next day to see what is going on, and to try to see if they can help Beth. Beth is not at school, and the members of the Fab Five all tried calling Beth last night, and the phone at the Barry house just kept ringing and ringing.
The girls all think that if Beth were sick, one of her parents would at least be home to answer the phone. At noon, they cannot reach Beth at home- the phone just keeps ringing and ringing. And umm what does Katie care, really but whatevs. Jana decides to believe Funny though she still is sort of miffed. At the movies, it is a tradition that Mark Twain kids sit on the left side of the theatre and Riverfield kids on the other side. What about the Copper Beach kids??? Hers was 47 years.
This series is 31 years. There was 3 years between the 1st and 2nd, one year between the 2nd and 3rd, and 31 years between the 3rd and the 4th. Luckily, very little time has passed for Rand Stannard, leaving the readers to not know if the writer decided several decades later to write another one or if the 4th just sat unpublished for so long.
Easily fitting into the B-grade movie category, this series is a hoot. The dialogue is very lame and the characters are totally stereotypical but you easily forget this as you grin while reading it. Stannard is really a very fun character to follow and his sense of humor, and that of the author, make the books a hoot at times. And the reading goes very fast so the books take no time at all. For overall spycraft the series rates a B but it should be given much higher but the attitude the protagonist has about life and other things.
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