Young Adult Revisited

Elizabeth Porter is George's aunt who lives in small town. When she gets some huge conservation award, the gals go to congratulate her. Nancy overhears someone complaining about bats and wonders what's going on before actually meeting the older lady. As it happens, there is a huge controversy going on in this small town. A local boy was killed while riding his bike at dusk along a road. There have been multiple accidents over the years that led to deaths and injuries. Though the town wants to widen the road to save lives and prevent accidents, Elizabeth is part of a group against the project because it will harm a group of endangered bats living right off the road. Sarah, the sister of the boy who died, shows up and screams at her before another young woman encourages her to leave. That woman is Jessie, a biology student from a local university in town to study the bats. Jessie and Elizabeth are leading the anti-road group. After going back to Elizabeth's

Wow! It's been awhile since I did one of the earlier books. I estimate that I probably read this one 30 to 40 times when I was a kid! Stacey is in NYC and thinking about how hard it is to be the daughter of a divorced couple. Yes, because her dad takes her to shows, restaurants, and fancy stores every time she visits. He even takes her to some expensive store and tells her to pick out anything she wants. Though she thinks about taking him up on his offer and getting a purple suede jacket with fringe, she chickens out and gets sunglasses instead. At the next BSC meeting, she can't wait to tell them how she saw some teen star on the street. Before she can though, they want to talk about the big mansion in town getting torn down. The historical society plans to save a bunch of architectural elements before it goes down. Dr. Johanssen then calls with a unique offer. Her father (father in law?) is sick, they need to go stay with him while he has an operation, and the

George recently started doing a lot of volunteer work for CARING, a youth organization in town. After convincing Nancy and Bess to join her, they all stop by the next day and meet Lena, the woman in charge of the organization. They also get to see the kids playing soccer against YES, the competing youth group. One girl gets so pissed off that she slams a soccer ball and sends it flying towards Bess, but George stops it with a head butt. Brittany, the girl, comes over to apologize after her coach makes her. Nancy then gets in the middle of two boys fighting right off the soccer field. One of them, Dino, is so impressed by the karate moves she used to get in between them that he asks her for lessons. Bess also meets Josh, some random hot guy. Though they want to work with kids, Lena gives them the job of going out and about in the neighborhood to sell random energy bars to make money for the organization. Several people living in their homes refuse to open their doors. O