Young Adult Revisited

A phantom phone caller is striking areas around Stoneybrook. He calls people frequently and when they stop answering, he knows they’re missing and sneaks into the house to steal all their jewelry. The BSC is a little worried because they don’t know what to do if it happens while they’re sitting. They finally decide to come up with a code. They’ll call another and ask about a red ribbon, which is a sign that something is wrong. Meanwhile Claudia is crushing hardcore on Trevor Sandborne, the new boy in school, but she isn’t sure if he even knows who she is. She takes a couple of sitting jobs and keeps getting random hang up calls, which freaks her out. The other girls aren’t experiencing the same thing, but Kristy starts getting a few calls too. Mary Anne gets so freaked out by the calls that she decides to set up alarm systems around the house, while sitting for a sick David Michael. She rigs pots and pans on one door, rigs a radio to go off on another and ties a bag of marbles to...

Roger Barrett is super poor yo. He’s never going to get some hot rich girl like Lila Fowler…or will he? There’s a huge race coming up and the winner gets a scholarship to Sweet Valley College. Years ago a guy who loved racing died and his parents set up the race and fund in his honor. Bruce Patman thinks he has a lock on it and no one else even stands a chance. The school holds a race and the top three positions get to race in the main Bart event. Lila starts picking on Roger right before the race starts, encouraging him to race. At the last second, he decides to run and has to wear camo pants and regular clothes, but still manages to win. Lila suddenly thinks that he’s super cool and looking kind of cute, so she goes after him. Elizabeth is the only one who knows that Roger works after school for a real hard ass. He can’t get time off to practice or work with the coach and he also can’t spend any time with Lila because of his job. Lila keeps inviting him to things like a pool p...

Kristy’s mom hires a high school girl twice a week to watch her brother David-Michael. The rest of the week, she, Sam and Charlie take turns watching him. When her sitter cancels and all the kids have plans, she spends hours on the phone looking for a replacement sitter. Kristy decides to start the BSC and give parents the chance to find a sitter quickly and easily. She talks to Mary Anne and Claudia about her idea and both are on board. Claudia even has a new friend Stacey, who she thinks would be perfect for the club. The girls get together, Claudia comes up with the logo, they appoint officers, come up with a flyer and decide on a meeting time. Before long, they all have sitting jobs and the club is a hit. Problems start popping up fairly fast. The first is when Sam starts crank calling the club. Then, Claudia starts taking jobs from people calling outside of meeting times. Even Kristy is a little sad when Mrs. Newton starts calling other girls to sit for Jamie, who’s her favo...

The Unicorns are volunteering at a child care center for people without a lot of money and Lila has gotten close to a little girl named Ellie. She even helped her mom Mrs. McMillian get a job working at Fowler Enterprises. She’s there when she sees the woman run into her old boyfriend Gerard, who recently transferred to Sweet Valley. It turns out that they dated and even got engaged, but he wanted to travel around the world, while she wanted to settle down and have kids, so they broke up. The two start dating and Lila offers to babysit for free, just so they can spend time together. Ellie gets a little dependent on her, but she doesn’t see anything wrong with it. At the same time, there’s a big weekend coming up for middle school kids and their parents. Lila keeps seeing how the other girls are with their parents and wishes she had the same thing with her dad. She also hears Mrs. Wakefield talking about how a parent should never break a promise to their child and it sticks in her he...

Mary Anne has finally realized that boys are out there and some of them are pretty damn cute. There are also other changes in her life too, mainly getting her first bra. Kristy is a little jealous because she still doesn’t need one and they used to be the only two that didn’t wear them. On the first day of school, she also sees the new guy Logan Bruno and freaks out. Stacey announces that he just moved into town from Louisville and that he’s really nice. The club is also having a few problems because they have too many jobs and not enough sitters. At one meeting, Mary Anne schedules a Saturday night job and announces that every single sitter has a job scheduled for that day. They discuss the problem in school and Logan comes over. He tells the girls that he did a lot of sitting in Louisville and would like to do it in Stoneybrook. They decide to invite him to a meeting, to let him see how they work. The meeting is kind of awkward because no one knows where to sit or how to act ar...

Jill, Andrea and Diane are best friends in a little group that also includes Nick and Max. The teens joke around about starting a fire, to get themselves out of school for a little bit. They play around and accidentally light a folder on fire, but blow it out. Not long after, the trash can where they dropped the folder goes up in flames, stopping class for the day. Andrea, who dropped the folder in the can, swears she thought it was out. The rest of the group think it’s kind of funny and don’t seem to realize how serious it actually was. Diane mentions that her good friend Gabe is moving to town and that he might help Andrea create a new song for her gymnastics routine. She makes it pretty clear that she isn’t interested in him as anything more than a friend. Of course Gabe is hot shit, though he acts like a dick. He spends most of his first few days making fun of Shadyside and bitching about how nothing is like it is in the city. He talks down about the pizza place and everythin...