A MA book. Gag, sigh,
pthpthpth. This book is full of
superstition and assumptions and a little picking on Jackie Rodowsky. Honestly, kind of boring.
The book starts with Kristy making MA sick with her
descriptions of the SMS lunch. Eesh, in
the last book I snarked, she wanted to WEAR food. We get the chapter 2 stuff
right away. We finally get an admission
that there might be some hurt feelings in the people the BSC members used to
sit with. MA says they’ll have to deal
and make their own groups. Nice. The
chapter ends with Cokie Mason and Grace Blume staring at the table and MA feeling
self conscious.
MA discourses on getting the mail and how much she loves
picking up the mail. I can’t snark this
too much because I used to love getting mail too. Now it’s all junk or bills since no one
writes letters anymore. She comments
that she loves to read the Stoneybrook News, because she likes to read about
crime. This must be one heck of a scary
town! MA grabs the mail on her way to
the BSC meeting and she has a letter!
Oooo, it’s a chain letter and if she breaks it, bad luck will visit her
and her friends and family. Ug, I
despise chain letters and so does she.
She’s not planning on sending out 20 letters, although Mal and Jessi
tell her very seriously that she has to.
No one wants her to send THEM a letter, though. She tosses out the letter on the way out from
the meeting.
The next morning starts with MA falling out of bed. She states that she’s sort of a klutz, but
she hasn’t fallen out of bed since she was four. I didn’t realize that being a klutz was a
requirement for falling out of bed. My
youngest son (9) is pretty agile, but he still falls out of bed on
occasion. Anyway, she has a rough time getting
ready for the day and her day doesn’t get much better. She hides away at home at the end of the day
and forgets about a sitting job. The bad luck is just beginning….
So the next job has Dawn sitting for Jackie Rodowsky and she
says it was a bad idea to try to help him make his Halloween costume. Ok, now I take really big issue with Dawn
here, because most of the issues were NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL. There are a lot of things that fall, which
can happen to anyone. Jackie cuts
himself, which I can see being somewhat of a deal, but it’s not like he’s the
only kid to get a boo-boo while someone is sitting. He spills paint; again, not that big of a
deal since they were working in the basement and it was wiped up. Then he puts on the costume he’s made BEFORE
THE GLUE IS DRY. Dawn, that’s just lack
of common sense. So, really, it wasn’t
that bad. I wish these girls wouldn’t
make such a big deal about this poor kid.
MA gets the mail again and this time it is a package. She takes it with her to the BSC meeting and
it’s a letter and a bad luck charm for MA.
She must wear it….or else. The girls start rehashing all of their recent
bad luck. They talk MA into wearing it
or there might be evil lurking to get them.
Muahahahaha!
More bad things keep happening and the girls decide they
have to ward off evil forces. They’re
having this discussion during lunch and again, Cokie and Grace are watching
them. They go to the library to look up
books on witchcraft. MA shows off how to
use the card catalogue and yet again, I cannot snicker because I remember doing
that too. They check out some books on
witchcraft and feel they are ready.
Before they get to reading the books, we have not one, but
two sitting chapters. Jessi sits for
Jamie Newton, who is scared of Halloween.
Claudia and Mal sit for the Pikes.
Their disasters include Byron burning dinner, a bird in the house,
Vanessa losing a tooth and the parents an hour late due to traffic.
They finally get together in an emergency meeting of the BSC
to find out how to counteract evil forces.
They read a bunch of impossible to perform spells, reminisce about the
phantom phone calls of the previous year and talking about the Halloween
hop. It comes up that Grace Blume hates
MA because she wants Logan. Hmmm…there’s a theme starting to come out.
The night of the Halloween Hop arrives and Logan and MA are
going as cats, because they’ve both seen Cats
and thought the costumes were awesome.
They get to the dance, say hi to the rest of the club members and start
dancing once the band starts picking up.
I say, band? A band at a middle school dance? Am I missing something? The best my kids had in middle school was
somebody’s older brother making a playlist on his Mac. But then, this is Stoneybrook. Anyway, Logan and MA are dancing along when
Cokie Mason comes by and says, “Nice bad luck charm.” Dun, dun,
DUN! MA gets home after the dance and
there’s a note taped to her door: Be at
old man Hickory’s
grave at midnight on Halloween.
Of course, MA is on the phone all morning with the members
of the BSC and Kristy ends up calling another emergency meeting. They all sit around trying to figure out how
they’re going sneak out of their house at 11:30 at night so that they can get
to the graveyard. Kristy comes up with
the brilliant idea of having a late night sleepover and instead of going to her
house, Charlie will drive them to the graveyard.
Trick or treat babysitting chapter. Kristy takes her younger siblings out trick
or treating and they end up at Karen’s imaginary witch’s house…she gives out
apples.
MA and her dad hang out at home, having a simple dinner
while handing out treats. MA is a
nervous wreck, jumping at any little sound.
She shows her dad the “bad luck charm” and finds out it’s a mustard
seed, which is a symbol of faith. All of
a sudden, everything clicks. Cokie and
Grace are behind the letters and necklace!!!!
She calls Kristy, who immediately comes up with another brilliant idea.
Charlie picksthem all up around 10:30 and they head right to
the graveyard, where the girls put their plan into action. Around 11:30, Cokie and Grace show up and the
BSC proceeds to scare the bejeevers out of them. Then Logan
shows up and the whole truth comes out.
Grace wants Logan, Logan likes MA and everyone thinks everyone
else is an idiot.
The BSC retreats to Krsity’s house where the rehash the bad
luck mystery. Jessi points out that
Cokie didn’t send MA the chain letter, so she could still have bad luck, but MA
poo-poos that; since they’ve defeated Cokie and her minions their luck has
changed. Then she drops a jar of eye
makeup on a compact and breaks the mirror.
Seven years of bad luck!!!!
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