Ode to Chapter Two

Hey all, I'm up for the next snark.  My book is the girls' second time through the 8th grade and it's before they are cemented into their character traits (so the ghosties remember who is who), but chapter two is firmly established.  I decided to do one chapter two for all the readers who may not have read the series ever, although you'd only have to read one to get the gist.  Here goes:
Kristy Thomas:

• Athletic, coaches Krusher's softball team
• Big mouth, but lots of ideas
• Brown hair, brown eyes, short
• Dad's a bum, Mom remarried a millionaire Watson Brewer, lives in a mansion
• Brothers Sam, Charlie, and David Michael; Step siblings Karen and Andrew; adopted sister Emily Michelle, who is Vietnamese.
• President of the club

Mary Anne Spier:

• Shy, sensitive, cries a lot
• Brown hair, brown eyes, was short but had a growth spurt
• Tigger the kitten
• Mom died, no siblings
• Father was really strict, but recently started loosening up
• Father remarried high school sweetheart 
• Stepsister is Dawn, fellow club member, and stepbrother Jeff, who lives in California.
• Only sitter with a steady boyfriend, Logan Bruno
• Secretary of the club

Claudia Kishi

• Artistic
• "fashionable" dresser (I use quotes because seriously???)
•  Is smart, but not good at school (later books portray her as simply unintelligent)
• Sister Janine is a genius with IQ of 196
• Hides Nancy Drew and junk food in her room
• Japanese 
• Long black hair and almond shaped eyes, slim even though she eats junk food
• Meetings held in her room because she has a phone
• Vice President of the club

Stacey McGill

• From NYC (OMG!!)
• Only child
• Divorced parents, Dad in New York
• Blonde permed hair and blue eyes
• Math whiz
• Almost as fashionable as Claudia
• Has Type 1 Diabetes
• Is boy crazy
• Treasurer of the club

Dawn Schafer

• From California
• Parents divorced, Mom remarried high school sweetheart, Dad remarried Carol (later in series)
• Brother Jeff moved back to CA,  stepsister Mary Anne
• Individual
• Blonde hair and blue eyes, sometimes described as pretty sometimes interesting
• Vegetarian (obnoxiously so, although not at first)
• An activist ( also obnoxiously so)
• Eventually moves back to California
• Alternate officer of the club

Abby Stevenson

• From New York area
• Dad died in a car accident
• Twin sister Anna
• Mom is a workaholic
• Asthma and allergies galore
• Athletic, especially likes soccer
•  Long curly brown hair and eyes (sister's hair is short)
• Jewish
• Alternate officer of the club (post Dawn)

 Mallory Pike

• Oldest of a large family - Adam, Byron and Jordan (triplets), Vanessa, Nicky, Margo and Claire
• Red hair and hazel eyes (originally chestnut hair in the early books, then changed to red)
• Likes to write 
• Loves horses
• 6th grader
• Junior member of the club

Jessi Ramsey

• Oldest in her family - sister Becca and baby brother Squirt
• Talented ballet dancer
• Originally from New Jersey
• Loves horses
• Black
• 6th grader
• Junior member of the club

The club meets three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5:30-6pm.  Jobs are recorded in the record book (MA is in charge) and details of sitting jobs are in the club notebook.  Members pay dues every Monday, and the money is used to pay Charlie for chauffeuring Kristy across town, stocking Kid-Kits (boxes they take to jobs with fun stuff for kids), and paying for supplies for one of the one million activities they do with their sitting charges.  If they are too busy, they can call associate members Logan Bruno and Shannon Kilbourne.  

There, all the info you'll ever need.  I always wondered why they didn't just write a book that outlined everything and sold it separately.  Then the book could just flow....well, as much as they could flow, especially the 5th or 6th time through 8th grade.  Ok, enough procrastinating on my snark.  Must. Read. Book.