Everything Changes [With Journal]

by Ann M. Martin

Book Overview

It's a summer change for the Baby-sitters Club, with major changes in the look and focus of Ann M. Martin's classic series. Throughout the summer, members of the club share feelings about who they are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439083249
• ISBN13: 9780439083249
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

EVERYTHING changes!

Baby-sitters Friends Forever is a great series! New things are happening with every single one of the baby-sitters (the author brought the members of the club down to the original four people), and problems that they experience are getting to be more teenage, not just problems with baby-sitting charges. Here's what's happening with ther fantastic four:Kristy: is worrying big time about what is going to happen with the Baby-sitters Club as they get older and afraid that she and all her friends will drift apart in high school.Mary Anne: is getting over the fire a little, and thinking about being her own person, not just the person her dad or Logan want her to be. She starts to think that Logan is smothering her.Claudia: is on a trip to a "deserted" island with her family, and gets back to the simple life and finds that she likes it a lot.Stacey: is having difficulties with her father- he doesn't like Ethan and thinks that Stacey is seeing too much of him, and he is thinking about moving in with his girlfriend who he has been seeing for a long time. Stacey doesn't like the idea of that.This is a great book, and seems to focus on the situations that teenagers face when they start to head out of middle school and start to head into high school. A wonderful, realistic book.

A Wonderful Start to a Wonderful Series

I'm a die-hard Baby-sitters Club fan, and this is must read. It's important because it's the beginning of the end of the Baby-sitters Club. In this one four of the remaining members of the club leave, which brings the level down to the original four members. Kristy and Abby go as CITs to camp, Claudia and her family go to an island, Stacey goes to Manhattan, where she has problems with her dad and his girlfriend, and Mary Anne stays in Stoneybrook with her family, and she tries to cope with the fire and Logan who is treating her like she can't take care of herself.This is a wonderful, and very realistic book that chronicles what happens to four very different teenage girls. A great book, by a great author!

Touching & interesting...

I loved the letter-diary format! I was sorry to see Abby, Jessi, & Mallory drop out of the club. I loved the parts of how Mary Anne is getting on with her life after the fire. I was so touched when she decided to give up going to camp with Abby & Kristy to make sure her parents were all right. It was so good seeing Mary Anne's grandmother again! I hope Verna appears in more future books. I just love her. I love how understanding she was of Mary Anne's sadness over the house fire. Boy, was I annoyed with Logan when he started butting into Mary Anne's business & acting as if she needed special protection! I was glad that Kristy urged her to stand up to Logan. When Mary Anne & her family went back one last time to try to collect what they could from the remains of the farm house, Logan had NO right to invite himself into to what was strictly family business! Mary Anne is one strong, courageous girl who doesn't sugarcoat reality & that's one reason she's my favorite character. I loved the scene where Jessi, Mallory, & Shannon give Mary Anne a photo album & Mary Anne is so touched that she cries. Another moving scene is when Verna gives Mary Anne's family boxes of things that that had belonged to Mary Anne's natural mother & whatever bad feelings Richard & Verna had just melt & they're re-united! I know that made Mary Anne relieved! I like the letters between Stacey & Claudia; those were the funny parts. Claudia's family was intending to "get in touch with nature" by vactioning on a remote island...no TV, computers, or dishwasher. But the results are hilarious! Meanwhile, Stacey & her dad are each dating someone & each of them feel funny about the other's spending so much time with that person. I thought it was realistic that Samantha's thinking of moving in with Stacey's dad. All in all, touching, some sad parts, funny, & uplifting.

WOW!

I really applaud Ann M. Martin for coming up with this series. I have read the BSC books since I was in third grade. Once I started buying them, I couldn't stop. After I had over one hundred of them, including Super Specials and Mysteries, my mom said no more. I'm in eleventh grade now, and I still read those books, only because I've half memorized them at this point, and I have no other books right now. I've always thought that the original series wasn't so realistic, especially once I got to be the ages of the girls. They were still fun to read though. But it was getting old having them go through the same stuff every time. I haven't had a chance to read CA diaries yet, but I will. I've flipped through them, though, and they're pretty tempting. BSC Friends Forever is the best. I bought Everything Changes during the summer because I figured I may as well see exactly what changes. I'm very pleased, and I think that it is much more realistic then the original series. I can't find my copy of it right now, but I'm looking like crazy! I know it's around somewhere. THANKS, ANN!

Wow..........that's all I can say is WOW!!!!!

I loved this book! It was so much more realistic then the Baby-sitters' Club! There were four different teens so there are four different stories!Mary Anne is still coming to terms that her house and all her things burned down.Stacey has to struggle with the fact that her father suddenily dissoproves of her older boyfriend, plus the fact that her father and his girlfriend's relationship has become VERY serious.I like these books because instead of saying "This is sooooo boring!" you say "Yeah I can relate to that!"I'm happy that this isn't just about the BSC! You'll deafnitely see all different kinds of plots in this new series.This is the stuff teens can relate to! Everything Changes! Thanks Ann!