Young Adult Revisited

Jessica needs money for new clothes and Elizabeth needs money for a new Amanda Howard video game, but their parents won’t give them a raise in their allowance until they turn 13. Elizabeth comes up with the idea of house sitting after Jessica turns down all of her other ideas. They make 100 flyers and put them around town, but no one calls them back until Mr. Clark, the school principal calls Elizabeth into his office. Mr. Clark makes it clear that he would rather have a wild monkey watch over his house than Jessica. Elizabeth vouchers for her and he reluctantly hands over his house key and tells her how to get there. She notices that he seems to run off awfully fast without giving her a lot of details though he does tell her to stay out of the basement. The first time they stop by his house, one of his neighbors comes over with a package for Mrs. Clark. Elizabeth notices that it was sent overnight mail three weeks ago. Apparently it got delivered to the neighbor’s house but she was...

Claudia is in summer school (again) and for some reason she gets to take a photography class. She takes pictures of everyone she knows using an old camera that belonged to her dad. At the same time, the kids in Stoneybrook start missing Dawn. They want to do something to show her how much they miss her, and Claudia decides they should make her a book called A Day in the Life of Stoneybrook with pictures from around town. The entire BSC brings their charges downtown and takes pictures. Claudia becomes fascinated with the downtown buildings and takes most of her pictures there. Mary Anne takes too many pictures of Tigger and has to borrow film from Claudia. Then, she follows her around and takes a bunch of pictures of Claudia taking pictures. During a BSC meeting, the girls hear an announcement that someone stole money from the bank. Conveniently, it happened on the same day that they were downtown. Claudia goes to develop her film and Janine walks into the darkroom, almost ruining th...