the book opens with stacey & mallory babysitting for the pike kids. they have magazines & comic books spread out everywhere, & they are ordering the cheap crap from the back pages--stuff like stamp moisteners & necktie-knotters. but it's keeping them entertained & out of trouble, so stacey & mallory don't think much of it.back home, stacey notices that her mom seems a little pale & tired. stacey assumes it's because mrs. mcgill has been so busy lately doing temp work & looking for a permanent jo...

Either this wasn't Ms. Martin's finest moment, or this little nostalgia kick is coming to a blessed close. It started out promising enough; I especially loved the BSC's visit to the punk store at the mall to secure an outfit for Stacey's dad's dinner. The mail-order subplot among the BSC charges also had its amusing moments (and I say this as someone who tends to want to skip over the babysitting parts and get back to the fashion and boys). But all the escalating tension surrounding the central

Since when does a kid feel that much responsibility about a sick mother, that she doesn't even feel it sufficient that friends of the mother take care of her, but wants to skip school to do it herself? Stacey makes a lot of bad choices in this book which more or less feels like the flip side of "Stacey's Emergency".

It didn’t take me a week to read actually when I started this book (when I logged my start date) I hadn’t even started reading. When I finally did open it to read it took me maybe an hour to read the full book.Anyways the review for this book is:It’s written well its apart of the classic Babysitters Club series! Martin doesn’t disappoint! She simply delivers like always. She’s a great writer & visualizer! She gives you a complete story. It’s good for a children’s book & as an adult reading it it...

My daughters review: In Stacey’s choice, Stacey’s Mom has pneumonia and Stacey’s Dad has this really important dinner bc he’s getting promoted! Stacey TRIES to be like, in both places but it doesn’t work out. The morale of this book is to “remember to take care of yrself don’t just worry about others, etc.” the second part is funny- a bunch of kids are ordering stuff from the back of magazines and comic books but realize like, THIS IS USELESS a long time after ordering it. It’s so funny but not

Stacey’s very mature and understandably caring towards her mother. After all, Jim Henson had died of pneumonia almost 2 years and 5 months before this particular book was written. (I looked it up.) But this book lifts up the tension with its funny subplot and great taste in fashion:pg. 29: black and white checked leggings (Claudia)pg. 30: long hot pink fake silk jacket, black leggings, pink and black socks, and black bodysuit (Stacey)pg. 123: blue jeans and sweatshirt (Mrs. Barrett)

I think Ann Martin was getting a little burned out at this point because there's some details that are blatantly opposite of what is told repeatedly through the rest of the books (one example is that Mary Ann's mother comes to watch Stacey's mother).

this is my first time reading this book!stacey's mom gets pneumonia and stacey thinks it's her job to take care of her (staying home from school, then enlisting the help of the neighbors to babysit her). meanwhile her dad gets a promotion and asks stacey to be a date to a party in his honor, but stacey is scared to leave her mom. she goes to nyc but spends the whole time thinking about her mom and has to leave the party early. her parents basically tell her to be a kid sometimes, and it's resolv...

In a reverse of many Stacey books, Stacey's mother gets sick and has to be cared for. Stacey takes on her mother's care, while she tries to figure out a plan for visiting her father in NYC to help him celebrate a big promotion. She is annoyed (again) about feeling caught between her parents.Things I remember from reading this as a kid:I don't remember this book very well. The only thing I remember is that Stacey overbooked her mother's caretakers and a bunch of them show up at once.I seem to rem...

This one is both sad and hilarious. The main plot is sad the b-plot cracked me up. So let's start with the main story. Stacey notices her mom is tired and sick, but thinks it's just the pressure of being a single mother looking for work. Her dad invites her to a big dinner being held in his honour after getting promoted to vice president of his company and the girls go shopping. This is where we learn the Rosebud Cafe is newly opened. Stacey gets the perfect outfit and is excited. Then she gets

(LL)While there are important issues in the book about how a divorce can change both the parent’s and kid’s lives down the road, this didn’t feel like it needed to be a full book as it could have been the subplot of another book and the reader would learn plenty of important lessons without it being a 140 page storyline. With that being said, this was a good example of what kids of divorce go through, so I gave it three stars for it being mostly accurate in its depiction.As an aside: It is highl...

Uh Oh.When Stacey’s dad invites her to a special event being held for him in New York she is super excited…but a few days before she is set to go, her mother gets pneumonia.Stuck between wanting to stay at home and care for her mom, or go to New York to support her dads big moment…poor Stacey just doesn’t know what to do.I liked the concept of this story, but I feel like Stacey’s mom should have told her daughter to go and enjoy her time in New York with her dad since there were other people ava...

Being the child of divorce is not easy, it was nice to see diversity in the cast of girls of the BSC from various backgrounds and all that.

Stacey's dad invited her for a work dinner in NYC after he got promoted, and she and her friends went to go buy a trendy hot pink and black outfit that sounds very 90's. One day when Stacey is in school, her mom comes down with pneumonia and she takes care of her mom and arranges for neighbours to look after her. Stacey can't decide whether to stay with her mom or go to NYC for the dinner and is caught in the middle once again. I'm sure those with divorced parents would be able to relate to this...

I have never seen or heard anyone use the word "swan" in any context other than the bird, and I have no idea what it means or if it's even pronounced the same way.

Stacey’s mother comes down with pneumonia just before Stacey is supposed to go to New York to be her father’s date to a company banquet honoring his promotion to vice president, causing Stacey to debate which parent needs her more. In the end, she attends the banquet but steps out to call her mom several times and insists on leaving early to catch a train, so that neither parent is satisfied. In a surprisingly subtly related choice-over-compromise, you-can’t-have-it-all kid storyline, the Pike y...

I very distinctly remember the first time I read this book as a kid, and how much it made me dislike Stacey's father. I never cared about him one way or another until after the McGill divorce. After that I remember thinking that he was a bit of a jerk. Not all the time, I didn't hate him in the NYC SS so much, but yeah. He was just this work alcoholic sort of jerk of a guy, and I always thought in this one that he was pretty unfair. Stacey was clearly worried about her sick mother, and he was mo...

Not a ton of plot or a lot of the other BSC members outside of their mall trip (which was fun) but I (mostly) like Stacey books and her relationship with her mom so I'm cool with it. Plus, it's nice seeing the adults be friends with and take care of each other. BUT there's this glaring error in the book where it says Mary Anne's mom came to check on Stacey's mom...? Did she come from the grave?

As a kid my best friends sister had the whole BSC series on a book shelf in her room. I thought she was so grown up. And I envied this bookshelf. And would often poke my head into that room just to look at it.And when I read BSC, I felt like such a grown up.And while I might have still been a little too young to understand some of the issues dealt with in these books, I do appreciated that Ann M. Martin tackled age appropriate issues, some being deeper than others, but still important.

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