Young Adult Revisited

Mary Anne is sitting for Carolyn and Marilyn Arnold, when she decides to take them to see Elvira the goat. Mrs. Stone talks to her a little while the girls play and asks if she’s ever meet Mrs. Towne, who lives down the street. She loves gardening and quilting and Mary Anne is hooked. She’s suddenly decided that she wants to learn more about sewing, but she doesn’t know how to contact her and she thinks asking is too forward. Kristy suggests she just call her and she finally decides to do it. Mrs. Towne asks Mary Anne to stop by for a visit. She shows her all of her quilts and some of her work and they have tea together. Mrs. Towne offers to give her lessons on sewing. Mary Anne arrives early for their first lesson, but no one answers the door. She goes inside and finds Mrs. Towne laying on the floor with a broken ankle. She calls her dad and calls for help. When Mrs. Towne comes home, things are different. Mary Anne stops by and sees that her house is now a mess. She cleans up a

Heather inherited a large sum of money when her parents died, but she now lives with her Uncle James and Aunt Belle. James is a douche, who won’t let her have any of the money in her trust fund. He treats her like crap, lectures her constantly and even treats his wife fairly badly. Heather fantasizes multiple times about killing him, including letting him freeze on the roof and his sled crashing into a tree. When the book opens, James catches Heather and her boyfriend Ben making out in her car. He pitches a fit and demands she go to work. That night, she meets a cute guy who just moved to town. He has snow white hair and goes by the name Snowman. They do some flirting and when he goes to pay, he realizes he forgot his wallet. He asks her on a date, to make up for not paying and she agrees. Heather and Snowman head off to a dance club, but he freaks out because he thinks he sees a car following them. He comes back to visit her at work a few times too. Ben finds out about him and w

Logan Bruno is a babysitter and he dates Mary Anne, just in case you didn’t know! He’s an associate member, which means he never attends meetings. One night he’s just about to sit down to a homemade BBQ dinner, when Kristy calls him on the phone and asks him to attend the meeting. His dad is a little less than thrilled about him rushing off. He tends to look at the BSC as just a way for Logan to get close to his girlfriend. The big news is that Dawn is leaving town for awhile because Jeff had a burst appendix and needs an operation. The club is way booked with jobs and Logan offers to take a few jobs. Kristy explains that they need him to actually attend the club meetings and take over as associate officer. He doesn’t really want to because he has football practice and is training for the track team, but he agrees to do it when Mary Anne starts crying. Things go bad almost from the very beginning. The BSC is so slammed that Logan has to take two back to back jobs that take place

Lewis Bruno is finally coming to town! Dawn thinks that hanging out with him will be the perfect way to practice having a boyfriend and get one in town. The more she thinks about him coming, the more she starts worrying about her looks. She borrows magazines from Stacey and flips through all of them, trying to find a way to update her look. Mary Anne agrees to help by doing her makeup and fixing her hair, mimicking the look of a model in the magazine. Dawn cuts one of her shirts, turning it into an off the shoulder shirt. She pouts because it makes her look older and she takes a picture, before sending it off to Lewis. Dawn starts changing her attitude too. She talks back in class, starts chewing gum and acts like a hard ass. The other members of the BSC call her on her behavior. They don’t like the way she dresses, the way she acts or anything about her. She just kind of gets annoyed and says nothing. This book also introduces Normal Hill. Dawn sits for him and his sister Sarah

Lila has met the perfect guy. His name is Jack and he works in construction, but she knows he must be something much more important. She throws a huge party with him as the guest of honor. From the moment Jessica sees him though, she knows that he must be hers. She flirts with him constantly and then slips him her number when Lila is out of the room. Jess is sure that Jack wants her and no one else, so she’s shocked the next day when Lila reveals that they have a date set up for the weekend. Then Jack calls and makes plans with Jess. He tells Lila that he can’t see her during the week because he has to get up so early. They have fun on their date and she decides that he’ll dump Lila soon enough. Nicholas Morrow thinks that Jack looks vaguely familiar from back east, but he can’t place him. Lila keeps pumping him for details and he lets a few things slip, like going to boarding school. He keeps dating both girls, but only Jess knows he’s seeing them both. He promises her that Lila