Young Adult Revisited

Yay, someone is finally giving Claudia exactly what she needs! Claudia is at home, chilling and thinking about the 900 th Halloween she will experience in middle school when Stacey calls. They chat for awhile until Claudia says she's having problems using a protractor. Stacey offers to help, but Claudia changes the subject. See, Claudia doesn't want everyone to know that she's once again sucking at school. No matter how hard she studies or what she does, she just keeps failing. One of her teachers pulls her aside to tell her that she'll face some serious consequences if she fails again, which is why the principal calls a meeting when she does fail. Before she can fail, Janine and her parents offer to help. Janine pairs her up with one of the girls from her class as a tutor. We know Rosa is cool because it's the 90s and she wears a newsboy hat. She pretty much calls Claudia out on how she has horrible study habits and really needs to work harder.

I always forget that there's some of the early, early books that I've never read before, and this is one of them. I can't remember if I read this as a kid or not, but I know I never recapped it before, so here goes! Roger Barrett went from the poor kid who can't even afford running shoes to one of the richest men in Sweet Valley overnight. Remember when his mom got all sick and was dying in the hospital and the Patman family finally decided to step up and take care of her? Well, now she's dead, he's living with Bruce, and everyone pretty much wants to know why he can't be more like Bruce. Um, maybe because he's just not a huge douche canoe? Marie, Bruce's mom who is way nicer in the last books, pretty much just looks down his nose at him. She doesn't like that he has an interest in medicine instead of the family business, she thinks his clothes are gross, and she really doesn't like Olivia. It's clear that she'd much r

The twins' art teacher announces a new project for the class. They need a new mural for the library. He asks for suggestions as to a mural theme, Elizabeth brings up recycling, and everyone agrees to use it. It's super confusing though. The teacher puts them in groups of three and asks them to come up with an idea, but then everyone creates their own murals. Are they planning on putting all the murals together at the end? Anyway, Liz gets put on a team with Sophia Rizzo and Sarah Thomas. Sarah is kind of a cry baby, and Sophia is kind of bitchy, so they naturally don't get along. They decide to make a mural that shows goofy drawings of their classmates. During their first painting session, they get into a fight and start throwing paint at each other. They accidentally hit one of their teachers with paint and have to come in for a meeting with their parents. Both Sophia's mom and Sarah's dad blame their own kids for what happened. During their meetin